Results 41 to 50 of about 59,432 (333)

The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Entrepreneurs and the Design of Administrative Reform: A Conceptual Framework and the Israeli Case

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
wiley   +1 more source

Digital and analogical discretion: an exploratory study of Italian street-level bureaucrats [PDF]

Journal of Innovative Digital Transformation
Purpose – The article examines how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) manage the digital bureaucratic relationship in dealing with customer needs and the technological innovations introduced into organisations (digital tools).
Rebecca Paraciani, Roberto Rizza
doaj   +1 more source

Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy

Administration & Society, 2022
Since 2015 Dutch street-level bureaucrats have ample discretionary space to determine how to help clients. Simultaneously, resources were reduced. According to Zacka SLBs should avoid three pathological positions: indifference, caregiving, and enforcing. At the individual level SLBs supposedly accomplish that by a gymnastics of the self.
Margo Trappenburg, Thomas Kampen, Evelien Tonkens   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Street Level Bureaucracy in Public Services to the Elderly in Kosovo

International Journal Papier Public Review, 2023
The crucial connection between governmental policy and citizens' daily life is represented by street-level bureaucracy. This article examines the various aspects that affect street-level bureaucrats' decision-making, with a focus on their use of ...
Valtiza Leminota
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

The Street-Level Bureaucrats – an Analysis on the Future of the Romanian Front-Line Public Services

Perspective Politice, 2017
The study focuses on street-level bureaucrats in Romania and on their activity within public services. In this paper we will describe how the issue of discretionary power is tackle in emergency situations and the theoretical framework in the area.
Mihaela Victorita CARAUSAN
doaj  

Evaluasi Kebijakan Pelayanan Kesehatan Oleh Puskesmas Sebagai Street Level Bureaucracy di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

PANDITA: Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Affairs, 2023
Policy evaluation is an effort to provide an assessment of policy results to become input and recommendations for policymakers. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in the implementation of policies, especially health service ...
Nikki Prafitri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Institutions Make Street‐Level Bureaucrats Prosocial? Agent‐Based Evidence Shows That New Public Management Does Not

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
wiley   +1 more source