The same society that roots bureaucratic stasis also generates countervailing change tendencies.

Evidence

While it is useful to specify as clearly as possible the forces supporting the status quo, it is hardly surprising to discover that the prevailing structure of relations is deeply rooted. However, just as the larger society establishes the environment in which bureaucracies operate and significantly affects bureaucratic relations, it also gives rise to contradictory tendencies that provide opportunities to challenge prevailing relationships. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1365

Categorization

• XREF: Methodologically mirrors the dialectical balance the reader’s speed hypothesis probes — paired stasis and reform forces. — connects to: Top-down policy changes easily while practice-level change resists because it is survival-rooted. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1354; The same mechanism that unites society also drives its historical change — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1544; In organizations power generates its own countervailing power. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The same mechanism that unites society also drives its historical change #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1544
• In organizations power generates its own countervailing power. #expands (0.85)
• Rapid change can itself be the mechanism producing deep social standstill. #qualifies (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 109
• Countervailing powers unite to block qualitative change #complicates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 234
• Systems of power necessarily generate their own subversive discursive counter-strategies #exemplifies (0.80)
• Every society develops its own solution to the problem of bureaucratic control. #qualifies (0.75)