We explore how street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) as ‘agents of the state’ operate in circumstances where there is very little state, at least as state form is understood in the context in which street‐level bureaucracy theorising has developed. Using the example of post‐conflict Bougainville, we suggest SLBs actually construct the state through their wide‐flung and deep networks of relationality. We propose that SLBs in the majority world may be helpfully understood through utilising two different lenses of the state, both of which tell an accurate but only partial story. The first lens is the edifice of the Weberian or Bureaucratic state and the second lens is that we term the Relational state. We illustrate how these two lenses together provide a more complete understanding and analytical insights into the role of SLBs through drawing upon our empirical data.

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关系国家中的街头官僚：以九重葛为例

我们探索在州很少的情况下，作为“国家的代理人”的街道官僚如何运作，至少是在发展了街道官僚理论的背景下理解了国家形式。以冲突后的布干维尔为例，我们建议SLB实际上通过其广泛而深入的关系网络来构建国家。我们建议，可以通过利用国家的两种不同视角来帮助理解大多数世界中的SLB，这两种观点都可以讲述一个准确而仅有部分的故事。第一个镜头是韦伯式或官僚状态的大厦，第二个镜头是我们称为关系状态的镜头。