P J May

Biographic Data

ID4384865
NAMEP J May
GIVEN NAMESP J
FAMILY NAMEMay
SIGNATUREMAY P J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS431
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX3

  • Politicians, Managers, and Street-Level Bureaucrats: Influences on Policy Implementation

    P J May, Stephen Winter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2009Cited by: 249References: 24

    This article addresses the influence of politicians, managers, and the dispositions of street-level bureaucrats in shaping actions at the frontlines of policy implementation. We investigate these for the implementation of employment policy reforms in Denmark. Our findings show a large percentage of caseworkers emphasizing actions that are consistent with the national employment reform goal of getting clients into jobs quickly. The influence of po…

  • Organizing Attention: Responses of the Bureaucracy to Agenda Disruption

    Peter May, P J May et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2007Cited by: 59References: 32

    Federal agencies are routinely confronted with requests from policymakers that they must address in some manner. These range from routine directives to cut through red tape to exceptional demands to alter policy priorities. We theorize that how attention is organized by public bureaucracies affects their responses. We draw on a variety of scholarship about public bureaucracies to develop a theory about the bureaucratic organization of attention a…

  • At the Regulatory Front Lines: Inspectors' Enforcement Styles and Regulatory Compliance

    Peter May, P J MayARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2003Cited by: 123References: 12

    This study contributes to the understanding of how those street‐level bureaucrats who are at the front lines of regulatory enforcement help to bring about compliance with regulations. Hypotheses concerning the impact of inspectors' differing enforcement styles on compliance are examined for data concerning municipal enforcement of building codes. Building inspectors vary in their day‐to‐day style of interaction with homebuilders with respect to f…

  • Regulatory enforcement and compliance: Examining Danish agro-environmental policy

    Open AccessP J May, PeterJ May et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1999References: 12

    This study of municipal enforcement of agro-environmental regulations in Denmark provides an empirical understanding of how enforcement affects compliance. A key contribution is sorting out the relative influence of inspectors' different styles of enforcement and choices made by enforcement agencies. The latter are shown to be more important in bringing about compliance than are inspectors' enforcement styles. Municipal agencies are shown to incr…