Service benefits expansion always carries increased state control with it

Evidence

The ways in which street-level bureaucrats deliver benefits and sanctions structure and delimit people’s lives and opportunities. These ways orient and provide the social (and political) contexts in which people act. Thus every extension of service benefits is accompanied by an extension of state influence and control. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about discretion routinizing stereotypes: bureaucratic implementation is itself a site of state power, not just policy delivery. — connects to: Property ownership always involves state intervention

Broader Connections

• Property ownership always involves state intervention #corroborates (0.75)