Street-level bureaucrats at the forefront of pandemic response: a comparative perspective

A Gofen, G Lotta - … of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Crises' implications for street-level implementation are understudied despite street-level
bureaucracy, as the operational arm of the state, by definition, serving on the frontline of …

Governmental response to crises and its implications for street-level implementation: Policy ambiguity, risk, and discretion during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Davidovitz, N Cohen, A Gofen - Journal of Comparative Policy …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
What are the implications of governmental responses to crises for street-level
implementation? The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to compare the …

Supervisory leadership at the frontlines: Street-level discretion, supervisor influence, and street-level bureaucrats' attitude towards clients

S Keulemans, S Groeneveld - Journal of Public Administration …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Steering street-level bureaucrats is utterly complex due to their discretion and professional
status which grant them relative autonomy from supervisory directives. Drawing from …

Policy innovation lab scholarship: past, present, and the future–Introduction to the special issue on policy innovation labs

AM Wellstead, A Gofen, A Carter - Policy Design and Practice, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The past decade has seen a rapid rise in the number of policy innovation labs (PILs). PILs
that are found both inside and outside of government address a wide range of social issues …

On the frontline of global inequalities: A decolonial approach to the study of street-level bureaucracies

F Eiró, G Lotta - Journal of Public Administration Research and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article aims to contribute to street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory by bringing to the
forefront the experiences and perspectives of the Global South. Our argument is that …

How do citizens assess street‐level bureaucrats' warmth and competence? A typology and test

N De Boer - Public Administration Review, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Citizens encounter many street‐level bureaucrats in their lifetime. How do they assess the
traits of the bureaucrats they meet? Understanding citizens' assessments of bureaucrats is …

Street-level leadership: Re-conceptualizing the role of the manager

AM Møller, CH Grøn - Review of Public Personnel …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Street-level workers are notoriously difficult to manage. Over the years, scholars have
highlighted the importance of social dynamics and informal and collective leadership in …

Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises

A Gofen, G Lotta… - Public Administration, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Imposing significant challenges for both street‐level implementation and policy (re) design,
crises alter the environment for street‐level policy entrepreneurship (SLPE), wherein street …

Racial discrimination and street‐level managers: Performance, publicness, and group bias

ZW Oberfield, MB Incantalupo - Public Administration Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article broadens our understanding of street‐level governance by examining how
citizen performance, organizational publicness, and group bias moderate racial …

Street‐level bureaucrats' perceptions of “the job”: Deviation from professional particularities and micro creation of public value

E Lavee, G Cohen - Public Administration, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation work of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) is becoming more complex due
to concurrent imperatives. While previous research has focused on SLBs' discretion …