Old and New: Street-Level Bureaucracy

Toward a Theory of Street - Level Bureaucracy

In recent years political scientists have been particularly concerned with finding viable means of measuring the impact of government on people. One of the most important and least studied areas relating to this concern is the problematic "place" in the political system where government meets people) the point of interaction between "clients" and government officials who deal with them in the r...

Street-level bureaucracy: an underused theoretical model for general practice?

Street-level bureaucracy (SLB) is a sociological theory that seeks to explain the working practices and beliefs of frontline workers in public services and the ways in which they enact public policy in their routine work. Developed by an American, Michael Lipsky,1,2 it examines the workplace in terms of systematic and practical dilemmas that must be overcome by employees, with a particular focu...

Social Capital and Street-Level Bureaucracy: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

Matching and Predicting Street Level Images

The paradigm of matching images to a very large dataset has been used for numerous vision tasks and is a powerful one. If the image dataset is large enough, one can expect to find good matches of almost any image to the database, allowing label transfer [3, 15], and image editing or enhancement [6, 11]. Users of this approach will want to know how many images are required, and what features to ...