Street-level Bureaucrats and Coping Mechanisms.The Unexpected Role of Italian Judges in Asylum Policy Implementation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Cristina Dallara ◽  
Alice Lacchei
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
And Coping

Poll Worker Decision Making at the American Ballot Box

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 714-718
Author(s):  
Mara Suttmann-Lea
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Matching Law ◽  
Election Law ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Signature Matching ◽  
American Elections ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Street-level bureaucrats set the terms for policy implementation and often operate under limited oversight. In American elections, poll workers are the street-level bureaucrats tasked with implementing a jurisdiction’s laws for verifying voter eligibility. Using in-depth interviews with 24 poll workers from the city of Chicago, this article assesses how poll workers make decisions about voter eligibility under Illinois’ signature-matching law. Respondents discussed a range of considerations used when they examine voter eligibility. The evidence I present suggests they rely on personal perspectives and experiences in their evaluations. Respondents also offered a range of responses for how they would proceed in the instance of a mismatching signature—including requesting voters provide identification even though it is not a requirement in Illinois unless a voter is challenged. Broadly, these results illustrate how poll workers’ subjective interpretations of election law shape their decisions and can lead to idiosyncratic applications of election law.

scholarly journals What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Don S. Lee ◽  
Soonae Park
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of this article is to explore the motivations of street-level bureaucrats when implementing change initiated by elected politicians. We analyse experimental data on more than 1,800 local civil servants from all 243 local governments in South Korea and find that street-level bureaucrats are more likely to implement change instigated by local elected politicians when their own policy positions are reflected in the reforms. Moreover, the degree to which street-level bureaucrats are likely to execute reforms instigated by local politicians is greater when bureaucrats perceive themselves as having more freedom to exercise discretion. These findings reveal a behavioural insight into the conditions in which bureaucrats are more likely to respond to change championed by elected politicians versus conditions where they are more likely to follow existing rules in the policy implementation process.

scholarly journals Public agents of front line: the creator of administrative law

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Bonacorsi de Palma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Street Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

<span>Abstract: The role of the front-line public agents in the implementation of the public policies created by the first-tier is the subject addressed by the author. From the notion of street-level bureaucrats, it seeks to identify the difficulties encountered by such public agents in decision-making and the need for standards that provide for institutes and administrative dynamics that in fact lead to more efficient, impersonal and guaranteeing public action to protect the well-intentioned front-line public agent to fully exercise the discretion he needs in case-by-case action.</span>

The Missing “M Word”

2016 ◽  
pp. 106-135
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Randles
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Primary Resource ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Resource Parents ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

This chapter shows how the Thriving Families program sought to reconcile the tension between parents’ views of marriage as something they could not afford and the policy’s goal of promoting marriage as a route to greater economic and family stability. As street-level bureaucrats who shape healthy marriage policy implementation, Thriving Families instructors deliberately avoided talk of marriage and instead emphasized committed co-parenting as the primary resource parents had to support their children’s life chances. In doing so, staff and instructors emphasized the value of something parents presumably had within their control—the quality of their relationships and parenting—over the jobs and money they did not.

Expanding the Field of View: The Role of Agricultural Employers in Street-Level Immigration Policy Implementation

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1097-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
New York State ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Street Level

More than half the U.S. farm labor force is undocumented, and thousands of U.S. employers hire farmworkers through the short-term H-2A visa program. Immigration enforcement and H-2A policy thus have an important role in farm labor markets, but its nature depends on street-level policy implementation dynamics. An interview-based case study in New York State extended literature on street-level bureaucrats by broadening the focus to actors outside government in the context of labor markets. The research specifies employer roles in policy implementation as beneficiaries of policy, de facto policy implementers, and citizens reacting to or attempting to influence policy.

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