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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest among social scientists in street-level theory and research. This panel brings experts in the field together to consider advances in this field since the publication of Lipsky's Street-Level Bureaucracy some 40 years ago, assessing three significant developments. First, conceptually, the field has moved beyond its roots in the study of large public bureaucracies that once dominated policy delivery to analyze the varieties of public, private, and mixed forms of street-level organizations that now operate at policy's front lines. Second, methodologically, studies have formulated and refined qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid approaches to examining how these organizations work. Third, the field has advanced internationally through multi-national and comparative studies that examine the role of street-level organizations in varied political contexts, for example as discussed in the conference’s thematic session on “Setting the scene for street-level bureaucracy theory to study service provision in the global south”. This roundtable will provide a forum for assessing the contributions of street-level research and theory to social science, highlighting key developments in the field and, perhaps most importantly, identifying promising new directions for research that recognizes the changing political, governance, organizational and technological world in which street-level organizations operate.

Round table participants: Michael Hill, Evelyn Brodkin, Mark Considine, Bernardo Zacka, and Gabriella Lotta.