Between hierarchies and markets: How street-level bureaucratic autonomy leads to policy innovations

IF 2.7 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Stéphanie Barral, Ritwick Ghosh
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Abstract

Although street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) play a key role in the implementation of market-based instruments (MBIs), their participation is widely understudied. This paper addresses this blind spot by engaging the concept of street-level bureaucratic policy entrepreneurship. Using the case of conservation banking, a market-based environmental policy in the United States, we explore why this novel instrument has only been adopted in a handful of jurisdictions. We examine both non-adoption and adoption of conservation banking to find that SLBs are likely to engage in such entrepreneurial acts when a new policy form is particularly useful in legitimizing regulatory enforcement. Implementing a MBI is, however, not straightforward. Organizational conditions can restrain SLB autonomy to implement MBIs, preferring instead to persist with baseline policies, which further underscores the importance of SLB risk-taking behavior. SLBs must strategically straddle their unique position between the market and the hierarchy to enroll different actors into the new policy arrangement, all within dynamic political–economic conditions.

在等级制度和市场之间:街道层面的官僚自治如何导致政策创新
尽管基层官僚在市场工具的实施中发挥着关键作用,但对其参与的研究还远远不够。本文通过引入街头官僚政策创业的概念来解决这一盲点。以美国的一项以市场为基础的环境政策——保护银行为例,我们探讨了为什么这种新工具只在少数司法管辖区被采用。我们研究了不采用和采用储蓄银行的情况,发现当一种新的政策形式在使监管执法合法化方面特别有用时,储蓄银行可能会从事这种创业行为。然而,实现MBI并不简单。组织条件可以限制SLB实施mbi的自主权,而不是坚持基线政策,这进一步强调了SLB冒险行为的重要性。slb必须战略性地跨越其在市场和等级制度之间的独特地位,将不同的参与者纳入新的政策安排,所有这些都在动态的政治经济条件下。
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European Policy Analysis
European Policy Analysis Social Sciences-Public Administration
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