Michael Lipsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 293653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lipsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipsky |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSKY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 590 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A note on pursuing work on street‐level bureaucracy in developing and transitional countries
Assessing Government Performance through the Lens of Public Sector Workers
Work and the Welfare State
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Traiter les problèmes sociaux comme des urgences
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Discussion report
The Nonprofit Sector in the Mixed Economy
Why We Must Increase Diversity
Nonprofits for Hire
In recent years, government's primary response to the emergent problems of homelessness, hunger, child abuse, health care, and AIDS has been generated through nonprofit agencies funded by taxpayer money. As part of the widespread movement for privatization, these agencies represent revolutionary changes in the welfare state. Steven Smith and Michael Lipsky demonstrate that this massive shift in funds has benefits and drawbacks. Given the breadth …
Nonprofits for Hire
Nonprofit Contracting and the Hollow State
Nonprofits for Hire
Given the breadth of government funding of nonprofit agencies, this first study of the social, political, and organizational effects of this service strategy is an essential contribution to the current raging debates on the future of the welfare state
Activities and Appointments
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Murray Edelman in Appalachia
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When Social Problems Are Treated as Emergencies
Recent governmental responses to hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, and other social problems have treated these problems as emergencies. Typically, this means that governments will allocate funds to nonprofit community agencies to provide temporary relief. Emergency designation permits quick responses to ameliorate presenting problems, relaxation of concerns over eligibility and equity, and postponing confrontation with more deeply rooted …
Nonprofit Organizations, Government, and the Welfare State
Since the early decades of the American republic, nonprofit organizations have played a critical role in helping people in need by providing education, training, residences, counseling, and in-kind and cash support. Moreover, President George Bush has followed Ronald Reagan in calling upon nonprofit agencies to take the leading role in American society in addressing social problems. Their belief in the efficacy of nonprofits (President Bush's tho…
Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities
Journal Article Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities Get access Michael Lipsky, Michael Lipsky MICHAEL LIPSKY, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written extensively on the structure and delivery of social welfare policies in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marc A. Thibodeau Marc A. Thibodeau MARC A. THIBODEAU, currently an attorney in…
Bureaucratic Disentitlement in Social Welfare Programs
Bureaucratic disentitlement is a mode of fiscal and programmatic retrenchment that takes place through obscure and routine actions of public authorities, and through failures to take action, that result in distributive consequences. Drawing primarily upon observations of social welfare programs in Boston over the last five years, this study identifies eight mechanisms by which the relationship of social welfare policy beneficiaries to the state h…
Quality Control in AFDC as an Administrative Strategy
Of all the initiatives directed toward improving the administration of social welfare programs, the federal government's quality control (QC) systems have been the most successfully implemented and sustained over the last decade. Despite the apparent neutrality of quality control mechanisms, initial findings from our study of the Massachusetts AFDC program suggest that administrative reform to reduce payment error incorporates changes in policy a…
Street-Level Bureaucracy
The critical role of street-level bureaucrats -- Street-level bureaucrats as policy makers -- The problem of resources -- Goals and performance measures -- Relations with clients -- Advocacy and alienation in street-level work -- Rationing services : limitation of access and demand -- Rationing services : inequality in administration -- Controlling clients and the work situation -- The client-processing mentality -- The assault on human services …
Commission Politics
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation
Recent state and federal legislation holds the promise of sweeping reform in special-education practices. In this article, Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky examine the implementation of Chapter 766, the dramatically innovative state special-education law in Massachusetts. They show how the necessary coping mechanisms that individual school personnel use to manage the demands of their jobs may, in the aggregate, constrain and distort the impl…
The Processing of Racial Crisis in America
Black Men, White Cities
Commission Politics
Politiques de l’exception
Protest as a Political Resource
The frequent resort to protest activity by relatively powerless groups in recent American politics suggests that protest represents an important aspect of minority group and low income group politics. At the same time that Negro civil rights strategists have recognized the problem of using protest as a meaningful political instrument, groups associated with the "war on poverty" have increasingly received publicity for protest activity. Saul Alins…
Bureaucratic Disentitlement in Social Welfare Programs
Bureaucratic disentitlement is a mode of fiscal and programmatic retrenchment that takes place through obscure and routine actions of public authorities, and through failures to take action, that result in distributive consequences. Drawing primarily upon observations of social welfare programs in Boston over the last five years, this study identifies eight mechanisms by which the relationship of social welfare policy beneficiaries to the state h…
Nonprofit Organizations, Government, and the Welfare State
Since the early decades of the American republic, nonprofit organizations have played a critical role in helping people in need by providing education, training, residences, counseling, and in-kind and cash support. Moreover, President George Bush has followed Ronald Reagan in calling upon nonprofit agencies to take the leading role in American society in addressing social problems. Their belief in the efficacy of nonprofits (President Bush's tho…
Outputs, Structure, and Power
Nonprofit Contracting and the Hollow State
When Social Problems Are Treated as Emergencies
Recent governmental responses to hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, and other social problems have treated these problems as emergencies. Typically, this means that governments will allocate funds to nonprofit community agencies to provide temporary relief. Emergency designation permits quick responses to ameliorate presenting problems, relaxation of concerns over eligibility and equity, and postponing confrontation with more deeply rooted …
Quality Control in AFDC as an Administrative Strategy
Of all the initiatives directed toward improving the administration of social welfare programs, the federal government's quality control (QC) systems have been the most successfully implemented and sustained over the last decade. Despite the apparent neutrality of quality control mechanisms, initial findings from our study of the Massachusetts AFDC program suggest that administrative reform to reduce payment error incorporates changes in policy a…
Law and Order
Riot commission politics
Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities
Journal Article Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities Get access Michael Lipsky, Michael Lipsky MICHAEL LIPSKY, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written extensively on the structure and delivery of social welfare policies in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marc A. Thibodeau Marc A. Thibodeau MARC A. THIBODEAU, currently an attorney in…
The Processing of Racial Crisis in America
Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York
Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968): (Angus Campbell and Howard Schuman, “Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities;” Peter Rossi, Richard A. Beck, David P. Boesel, Bettye K. Eidson, and W. Eugene Groves, “Between White and Black—The Faces of American Institutions in the Ghetto;” and Robert M. Fogelson and Robert B. Hill, “Who Riots? A Study of Participation in the …
Social Scientists and the Riot Commission
This paper examines the temporal, political, conceptual, and methodological constraints encountered by social scientists working for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). Focusing on efforts to develop a synthetic, theoretical explanation of the causes of disorders, to collect data on riot cities, and to adhere to accepted forms of social research, we discuss a fundamental tension between procedures preferred by…
Rent strikes
The Nonprofit Sector in the Mixed Economy
Outputs, Structure, and Power
Protest as a Political Resource
The frequent resort to protest activity by relatively powerless groups in recent American politics suggests that protest represents an important aspect of minority group and low income group politics. At the same time that Negro civil rights strategists have recognized the problem of using protest as a meaningful political instrument, groups associated with the "war on poverty" have increasingly received publicity for protest activity. Saul Alins…
Feedback
Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York
Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968): (Angus Campbell and Howard Schuman, “Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities;” Peter Rossi, Richard A. Beck, David P. Boesel, Bettye K. Eidson, and W. Eugene Groves, “Between White and Black—The Faces of American Institutions in the Ghetto;” and Robert M. Fogelson and Robert B. Hill, “Who Riots? A Study of Participation in the …
Riot commission politics
Rent strikes
Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform
Social Scientists and the Riot Commission
This paper examines the temporal, political, conceptual, and methodological constraints encountered by social scientists working for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). Focusing on efforts to develop a synthetic, theoretical explanation of the causes of disorders, to collect data on riot cities, and to adhere to accepted forms of social research, we discuss a fundamental tension between procedures preferred by…
Law and Order
Black Men, White Cities
The Processing of Racial Crisis in America
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation
Recent state and federal legislation holds the promise of sweeping reform in special-education practices. In this article, Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky examine the implementation of Chapter 766, the dramatically innovative state special-education law in Massachusetts. They show how the necessary coping mechanisms that individual school personnel use to manage the demands of their jobs may, in the aggregate, constrain and distort the impl…
Commission Politics
Street-Level Bureaucracy
The critical role of street-level bureaucrats -- Street-level bureaucrats as policy makers -- The problem of resources -- Goals and performance measures -- Relations with clients -- Advocacy and alienation in street-level work -- Rationing services : limitation of access and demand -- Rationing services : inequality in administration -- Controlling clients and the work situation -- The client-processing mentality -- The assault on human services …
Quality Control in AFDC as an Administrative Strategy
Of all the initiatives directed toward improving the administration of social welfare programs, the federal government's quality control (QC) systems have been the most successfully implemented and sustained over the last decade. Despite the apparent neutrality of quality control mechanisms, initial findings from our study of the Massachusetts AFDC program suggest that administrative reform to reduce payment error incorporates changes in policy a…
Bureaucratic Disentitlement in Social Welfare Programs
Bureaucratic disentitlement is a mode of fiscal and programmatic retrenchment that takes place through obscure and routine actions of public authorities, and through failures to take action, that result in distributive consequences. Drawing primarily upon observations of social welfare programs in Boston over the last five years, this study identifies eight mechanisms by which the relationship of social welfare policy beneficiaries to the state h…
Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities
Journal Article Feeding the Hungry with Surplus Commodities Get access Michael Lipsky, Michael Lipsky MICHAEL LIPSKY, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written extensively on the structure and delivery of social welfare policies in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marc A. Thibodeau Marc A. Thibodeau MARC A. THIBODEAU, currently an attorney in…
When Social Problems Are Treated as Emergencies
Recent governmental responses to hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, and other social problems have treated these problems as emergencies. Typically, this means that governments will allocate funds to nonprofit community agencies to provide temporary relief. Emergency designation permits quick responses to ameliorate presenting problems, relaxation of concerns over eligibility and equity, and postponing confrontation with more deeply rooted …
Nonprofit Organizations, Government, and the Welfare State
Since the early decades of the American republic, nonprofit organizations have played a critical role in helping people in need by providing education, training, residences, counseling, and in-kind and cash support. Moreover, President George Bush has followed Ronald Reagan in calling upon nonprofit agencies to take the leading role in American society in addressing social problems. Their belief in the efficacy of nonprofits (President Bush's tho…
Murray Edelman in Appalachia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Nonprofits for Hire
Given the breadth of government funding of nonprofit agencies, this first study of the social, political, and organizational effects of this service strategy is an essential contribution to the current raging debates on the future of the welfare state
Why We Must Increase Diversity
Nonprofits for Hire
In recent years, government's primary response to the emergent problems of homelessness, hunger, child abuse, health care, and AIDS has been generated through nonprofit agencies funded by taxpayer money. As part of the widespread movement for privatization, these agencies represent revolutionary changes in the welfare state. Steven Smith and Michael Lipsky demonstrate that this massive shift in funds has benefits and drawbacks. Given the breadth …
Nonprofits for Hire
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