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Street-level bureaucracy

Street-level bureaucracy

Michael Lipsky · 1980 · 244 pages

Social policySocial workersCivil serviceSocial WorkPublic Policy
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Street-Level Bureaucracy is an insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, as they wield their considerable discretion in the day-to-day implementation of public programs.

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