{"id":15916,"date":"2023-04-20T03:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/expanding-on-lipkys-insights-about-street-level-bureaucracies-welfare-bureaucrats-as-street-level-bureaucrats\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T03:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:14:34","slug":"expanding-on-lipkys-insights-about-street-level-bureaucracies-welfare-bureaucrats-as-street-level-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/expanding-on-lipkys-insights-about-street-level-bureaucracies-welfare-bureaucrats-as-street-level-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding on Lipky\u2019s insights about Street Level Bureaucracies: Welfare Bureaucrats as Street Level Bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"
Expanding on Lipky\u2019s insights about Street Level Bureaucracies: Welfare Bureaucrats as Street Level Bureaucrats<\/font><\/b><\/div>\n

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Please throuoghly address each question below in a 4-6 double spaced page essay. Please use the reading material below as the required source. <\/font><\/b><\/div>\n

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1. Recall in the Lipsky reading and lecture slides, a central problem that he highlights is how Street Level Bureaucrats go about rationing services when they are plagued by work contexts where their time and resources are not adequate to meet the needs being presented to them by the people they are interacting with (clients).<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. Turning to the Watkins-Hayes book, cite one or two examples of service rationing highlighted in her welfare office vignettes and reflect on how workers\u2019 are dealing with the dilemmas Lipsky highlights. <\/b><\/font><\/div>\n

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2. Watkins-Hayes refers to welfare offices as \u201ccatch-all bureaucracies.\u201d<\/span>
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1. What does this term mean?<\/font><\/div>\n

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2. How does this contextual reality \u2013 being a catch-all bureaucracy \u2013 present a unique dilemma to workers trying to manage large and need-intensive caseloads? Explain this dilemma and why it matters from a social justice perspective.<\/font><\/div>\n

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3. Watkins-Hayes notes that the job of the welfare bureaucrat is uniquely challenging not only because as \u201ccatch-all bureaucracies\u201d they are dealing with a wide range of clients and client needs, but also because the nature of their job is defined largely by what she calls the \u201cdual-function dilemma.\u201d (see slides 10-12 in the Situated Bureaucrats Lecture)<\/font><\/div>\n

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1. Explain what this \u201cdual function dilemma\u201d is (i.e. what are the two functions)?<\/font><\/div>\n
2. How do these functions conflict with one another?<\/font><\/div>\n
3. What problems (what dilemma) does this present—especially given that welfare offices are often plagued by the some or all of the four problematic conditions of work that Lipsky highlighted?<\/font><\/div>\n
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Watkins-Hays, Celeste, 2009. Introduction and Chapter 1 \u201cSituated Bureaucrats: Locating Identity in Catch-All Bureaucracies.\u201d In The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class and Policy Reform. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.<\/span>
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Watkins-Hays, Celeste, 2009. Chapter 2 \u201cNot Everyone has the Same Bag of Tricks: Identity, Discord, Discretionary Toolkits and Policy-making in a changing institution\u201d and Chapter 3 \u201cReinventing the Street-Level Welfare Bureaucrat?\u201d In The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class and Policy Reform. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

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