Street-level bureaucracies can never be adequately resourced
Evidence
Most executives profess that their organizations do not have sufficient resources or at least are hampered by resource constraints. Local governments that turn back federal revenue-sharing funds are the exception to the general rule that organizations perceive themselves as requiring and able to utilize additional resources. Yet street-level bureaucracies, with certain other government agencies, chronically experience resource constraints. These agencies are virtually never adequately provided for, and perhaps cannot be adequately provided for. Why is this so? — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 276
Categorization
- QUESTION: Anchors the reader’s core hypothesis: is the chronic shortage structural, and does that shortage itself force the frontline discretion that routinizes stereotypes faster than cultural change?
- XREF: Links to the user’s own research thread on resource scarcity as a driver of frontline discretion and stereotype institutionalization. — connects to: Service demand expands to absorb any resource increase in street-level bureaucracies — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 277; Street-level agencies can never be adequately resourced — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 276; Heavy caseloads make it impossible for street-level bureaucrats to meet their mandated duties. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 250 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Street-level agencies can never be adequately resourced
#corroborates(1.00) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 276 - Heavy caseloads make it impossible for street-level bureaucrats to meet their mandated duties.
#expands(0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 250 - Efficiency and cost-effectiveness pressure dominates street-level bureaucracies
#expands(0.80) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 362