Street-level bureaucrats face demand that always expands to meet service supply.

Evidence

Street-level bureaucrats work with inadequate resources in circumstances where the demand will always increase to meet the supply of services. Thus they can never be free from the implications of significant constraints. Within these constraints they have broad discretion with respect to the utilization of resources (by definition). — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 603

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the economic observation that service demand expands to absorb supply (Say’s law inverted) and later organizational theorizing on street-level coping routines such as creaming and rationing. — 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 expand services or clients rather than refuse demand, ensuring chronic understaffing — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 326; Street-level bureaucracies can never be adequately resourced — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 276

Broader Connections

• Street-level bureaucracies can never be adequately resourced #corroborates (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 276