Organization matters. Policy entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats in public employment services. Insights from an Italian case-study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7822414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto Rizza (0000-0001-6548-2555, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Silvia Lucciarini (0000-0002-4531-9678, Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 487-506 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0390-6701 • E-ISSN: 1469-9273 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03906701.2021.2006530 |
| OpenAlex | W3216049739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 42 |
In this paper we seek to overcome the knowledge gap in street-level bureaucracy (SLB) literature on labour market policies, focusing on a specific public employment service (PES). In the context of active labour market policies (ALMP), PES are seen as strategic because they have a direct effect on reducing unemployment in both the short and long run and an indirect effect on reinforcing long-term training programmes. However, recent reforms of public employment services in many European countries have generated divergent trajectories in SLBs' practices. In this heterogeneous and unclear picture, to better grasp the different mechanisms influencing policy outcomes at a micro level it seems promising to merge street-level bureaucracy with the policy entrepreneur (PE) approach focused on the way caseworkers (conceived as policy entrepreneurs) influence policy design far beyond the resources they hold. In this article we consider if there are certain organizational configurations that favour the emergence of policy entrepreneurship among street-level bureaucrats. To test this hypothesis, the paper investigates an Italian public employment service. The Italian context is particularly interesting in that it underwent a process of decentralization followed by a more recent push towards re-centralization
Bureaucracy · Decentralization · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Public service · Unemployment · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |