Studies of representative bureaucracy have shown how minority groups are often underrepresented in public agencies. They also indicate that the match between the backgrounds of the bureaucrats and their clients has a strong effect on minority groups. Less attention has been devoted to the question of what happens when streetlevel bureaucrats (SLBs) from a minority group serve clients in organizations all of whose clients belong to the
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