The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life

Evidence

The growth of the service sector represents the furthest reaches of the welfare state. The service sector penetrates every area of human needs as they are recognized and defined, and it grows within each recognized area. This is not to say that the need is met, but only that the service state breaches the barriers between public responsibility and private affairs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 102

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘service state’ as one that crosses into private affairs without necessarily meeting the needs it claims to address.
• XREF: connects to: Public agencies have absorbed formerly private responsibilities for the poor. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 87; Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 945; Public-service ethics force agencies to expand volume instead of improving quality

Broader Connections

• Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 945