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Street-Level Bureaucracy
“A written policy changes when someone applies it to a real case with limited time.”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
Street-level bureaucracy studies public workers with direct contact, scarce resources, and discretion. Their routines and daily judgments help produce the policy citizens actually experience.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
A social worker interprets general criteria while managing files, urgent cases, and places that cannot meet demand.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
The approach does not automatically blame front-line staff or make formal rules irrelevant.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Evaluate policy at implementation: workload, discretion, resources, and routes for review.