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The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Harvard Book Store are pleased to welcome Bernardo Zacka, junior research fellow at Christ's College Cambridge and imminent MIT assistant professor, for a discussion of his new book, When the State Meets the Street.
When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights from political theory with his own ethnographic fieldwork as a receptionist in an urban antipoverty agency, Bernardo Zacka shows us firsthand the predicament in which these public servants are entangled.
This event is part of our "Ethics in Your World" speaker series featuring leading thinkers taking on tough problems that matter to us all.
This event is free; no tickets are required. The book will be for sale at the event.
