Luleå University of Technology, Division of Social Science, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden.
J Environ Manage. 2013 Oct 15;128:1060-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.06.038. Epub 2013 Aug 7.
In this paper, we assert that an important element is largely missing in much of the current environmental policy literature regarding different management ideals: street-level bureaucrats (i.e., the practicing and, typically, anonymous civil servants at the very end of the environmental policy chain). Thus, we aim to enhance a deeper understanding of the role that street-level bureaucrats play within different management ideals, and through this discussion, we indicate how they affect the functionality of governing structures and processes. We do so by interviewing street-level bureaucrats carrying out their role in different management settings, enabling evaluations of the degree to which their practices correspond with the ideals expressed in the literature and in official directives. We find a rather poor match between these ideals on one hand and the way street-level bureaucrats actually perceive that they are internally steered and how they carry out their commissions on the other hand.
在本文中，我们断言，当前关于不同管理理念的环境政策文献中，存在一个重要的元素缺失了：一线官僚（即处于环境政策链末端的实际的、通常是匿名的公务员）。因此，我们旨在深入了解一线官僚在不同管理理念中所扮演的角色，并通过这一讨论，说明他们如何影响治理结构和过程的功能。我们通过采访在不同管理环境中履行职责的一线官僚来实现这一目标，从而评估他们的实践与文献和官方指令中表达的理想之间的契合程度。我们发现，这些理想与一线官僚实际认为的内部指导方式以及他们执行任务的方式之间存在相当大的不匹配。
