Assertion: level bureaucrat | /r/HasProperty | slbs
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text: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services, a classic work by Michael Lipsky that describes what the street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in charge of delivering public services actually do in terms of policy implementation and how their actions differ from the policy pronouncements of central-level planners.
text: These are its recognition that: (a) street level bureaucrats (SLBs) have discretion and power in implementation, and so their practices are what citizens experience as policy and have political consequences; (b) SLBs’ behavior is systematically influenced by the organizational and institutional environment in which they work, rather than being primarily a response to personal preferences and interests; and (c) efforts to control SLBs’ behavior only undermine their responsiveness to clients, so new approaches are needed to support them as the face of a responsive public bureaucracy.
text: His consideration of what the street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) responsible for public service delivery actually do in policy implementation, and how their actions differ from the policy pronouncements of central level planners, contradicted the assumptions of top–down analysts, as exemplified by Pressman and Wildavsky (1973).