Verwaltungskrise im Migrationsfeld

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-406
Author(s):  
Lisa Riedel
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Task Execution ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Administrative Behavior ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

Analyses of how crises affect political agendas and policy formulation are widespread in political science literature. However, what is missing so far is a consideration of crisis effects during the implementation phase. In particular, the effects of crises on street-level bureaucrats implementing certain policies are examined insufficiently. Some authors reflect upon the consequences of single elements of crises, like burden or work overload, on individual administrative behavior. Nonetheless, what is missing so far is a multidimensional understanding of crisis and a consideration of how crisis situations affect public authorities concretely. Accordingly, it is the aim of this contribution to evaluate, if a crisis and its perception as such leads to deviating administrative behavior. With the help of a case study considering migration authorities in Bremen, this contribution can show that subjectively perceived crises can lead to an adjusted administrative pattern of task execution of street-level bureaucrats. A selective style of implementation for the benefit of the clients is characteristic for this, so-called, crisis implementation style.

Case study 2

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan Ferlie ◽  
Sue Dopson ◽  
Chris Bennett ◽  
Michael D. Fischer ◽  
Jean Ledger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Key Stakeholders

This chapter analyses the role of think tanks in generating a distinctive mode of policy knowledge, pragmatically orientated to inform and shape issues of importance to civil society. Drawing on political science literature, we argue that think tanks exploit niche areas of expertise and influence to actively mobilize policy analyses and recommendations across diverse stakeholders. Through our exploratory mapping of think tanks, geographically concentrated within London, we characterize their influence as significantly boosting knowledge intensity across the regional ecosystem. In particular, we study the empirical case of one London-based think tank which powerfully mobilized policy knowledge through its formal and informal networks to build influential expert consensus amongst key stakeholders. We conclude that such organizations act as key knowledge producers and mobilizers, with significant potential to influence policy discourses and implementation.

A case study of bureaucratic discretion: heterogeneous application of market entry regulation in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Petrik Runst
Keyword(s):  
Market Entry ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Entry Regulation ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Bureaucratic Discretion ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Actual Application ◽  
Uniform Manner

Abstract All law is relatively coarse after its initial implementation as the legislature cannot foresee all contingencies that can arise in the actual application of the law. Therefore, decisions need to be made by street-level administrators as novel and particular circumstances arise. Economists have largely ignored the political science literature on street-level bureaucrats, such as policemen, welfare case managers, or regulatory agents. I present a case study in the context of market entry regulation in Germany. Qualitative and quantitative evidence suggests that bureaucratic discretion exists, that is, administrative actions can be found on different ends of a decision space, and that its effects are potentially large. Administrators do not apply legislation in a uniform manner and we observe a systematically different application of rules across subnational jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Modification of Public Policies by Street-Level Organisations: An Institutional Work Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIC BREIT ◽  
TONE ALM ANDREASSEN ◽  
ROBERT H. SALOMON
Keyword(s):  
Pension Reform ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Retirement Pension ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe literature on policy implementation is divided with regards to the impact of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of public policies. In this paper, we aim to add to and nuance these debates by focusing on ‘institutional work’ – i.e. the creation, maintenance and disruption of institutions – undertaken by central authorities and street-level bureaucrats during public reform processes. On the basis of a case study of the organisational implementation of a retirement pension reform in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, we argue that institutional work is a useful heuristic device for conceptualising the variety of responses available to street-level bureaucrats during public reforms. We also argue that the responses demonstrate the impact of street-level bureaucrats in these reforms in the context of managerial control and regulation. Finally, we argue that the effectiveness of policy change is dependent on the institutional work of street-level bureaucrats and, in particular, on institutional work that supports the institutions created by politicians and public administrations.

scholarly journals Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nora Ratzmann
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
German Language ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Welfare Fraud ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

Migration raises the question of how street-level bureaucrats treat non-citizens when it comes to the distribution of limited welfare resources. Based on a German case study, this article reveals how local social administrators rationalise practices of inclusion in and exclusion from social assistance receipt and associated labour market integration services for mobile EU citizens, who are perceived first and foremost as ‘foreigners’. The findings from fifty-five qualitative interviews with job centre representatives show how politics of exclusion are justified by nationalistic and ethnic criteria of membership. Insofar as EU migrants are considered outsiders to the imagined welfare community of their host country, they are seen as less deserving than German-born claimants. However, mobile EU citizens can earn their legitimacy to access benefit receipt through sustained participation in the host society, demonstrating knowledge of the German language and societal norms so as to appear ‘German’. Such a cultural performance-based logic of deservingness tends to be intertwined with nationality-based and racialising stereotypes of welfare fraud to frame exclusionary practice.

Restructuring Probation in England and Wales: Lessons from an American Experience

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUDITH RUMGAY ◽  
MARY BREWSTER
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Professional Ideology ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
British System ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

The authors examine current proposals to restructure the probation service in England and Wales. A case study of a midwestern American juvenile court is used to explore the possible consequences of imposing change and constraints on the practice of probation officers, when such change conflicts with their professional ideologies. The authors explore differences between this case example and the British system of probation, in terms of professional ideology, organizational arrangements and networks of influence, arguing that the British system benefits from particular attributes that may be exploited to preserve its traditions and methods of practice in a hostile policy climate. As “street-level bureaucrats,” probation officers have considerable power to subvert policies to which they object.

Citizen Reactions to Bureaucratic Encounters: Different Ways of Coping With Public Authorities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen ◽  
Helle Ørsted Nielsen ◽  
Mette Bisgaard
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Behavior Types

Abstract Common to most studies on street-level bureaucrats is a fundamental acknowledgment that behaviors of citizens with whom the street-level bureaucrats interact play an important role for their decision-making. However, within literature, there is a lack of generic and systematic attention to the agency of the citizens. This article aims to respond to this criticism and answer the questions: How do citizens cope with public encounters? Do citizen behaviors towards public authorities divide into distinct, meaningful, multidimensional behavior types? Through an explorative theory-based approach, the article opens those questions. Based on self-reported survey-data on behavior, from a representative sample of Danish citizens, we use latent class analysis (LCA) to identify systematic patterns in citizens’ behavior towards public authorities (exemplified by Tax and Home Care Referral authorities). We identify five types of citizen coping behavior in public encounters: “Resisters,” “Activists,” “Accommodators,” “Flighters,” and “Cooperators.” The five types of coping behaviors can be placed in a three-dimensional space measuring degree of activity, degree of preparation, and degree of opposition. We suggest that this insight and conceptual framework of citizen coping behavior can create a starting point for researchers to embark a research agenda on citizens’ coping behavior in citizen-state encounters.

scholarly journals Decoding and Disclosure in Students-as-Partners Research: A Case Study of the Political Science Literature Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Rouse ◽  
Julie Phillips ◽  
Rachel Mehaffey ◽  
Susannah McGowan ◽  
Peter Felten
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Research Team ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Conduct Literature ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
Literature Reviews

The Decoding the Disciplines (DtD) methodology has been used to study bottlenecks to student learning in a range of disciplines. The DtD interview process involves conversations between faculty regarding disciplinary practices. This article analyzes the use of the DtD approach in a student-faculty partnership to explore questions about disciplinary learning in political science. The research team compared how faculty and two cohorts of undergraduates decode a specific disciplinary bottleneck—the task of writing a literature review in political science. Results from the interviews reveal fundamental differences in how faculty and undergraduates conduct literature reviews in this discipline, including a troubling disjuncture as undergraduates become more expert in this process. Because the research team included both students and faculty, we also explore issues of disclosure and power in student-faculty partnerships in SoTL research.

Does Core Task Matter for Decision-Making? A Comparative Case Study on Whether Differences in Job Characteristics Affect Discretionary Street-Level Decision-Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1125-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didde Cramer Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Systematic Variation ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

This article sets out to test the hypothesis that differences in fundamental job characteristics (service vs. regulation) affect discretionary street-level decision-making. The hypothesis was tested by examining whether systematic variation could be found in the moral assessments on which street-level bureaucrats performing different types of core tasks base their decisions. The issue was addressed in a comparative case study comprising three institutions, which differ systematically as far as variables of tasks are concerned. Findings showed that differences in core tasks do affect discretionary decision-making, as divergent moral assessments determine and justify decision-making across different core tasks.

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