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Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness

Cinque, Serena, 1975 (författare)
Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI)
Sjölander Lindqvist, Annelie, 1970 (författare)
Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier,Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI),School of Global Studies
Sandström, Camilla, Professor, 1967- (författare)
Umeå universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
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2021-07-22
2022
Engelska.
Ingår i: Environmental Policy and Governance. - : Wiley. - 1756-932X .- 1756-9338. ; 32:1, s. 17-28
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  • Frontline bureaucrats are positioned at the interface between citizens and the state. They convert political resolution into action and in effect form the core of many public decisions through interaction and communication with both the recipients of those decisions and upper management levels that initiate them. However, dilemmas often arise when frontline bureaucrats attempt to translate political goals and strategies into local administrative praxis. The case of large carnivore management in Sweden will be used to demonstrate the insuperable difficulties that can arise when managers simultaneously need to balance the bureaucratic tasks of planning, executing, and evaluating performed decisions with attending to calls for increased responsiveness to public values in order to improve the delivery of service. This responsiveness is typically reflected through the new principles of public participation and collaboration, which are added to the bureaucracy to support the integration of broader sets of interests, experiences, and knowledge. In such an environment, the work of frontline managers becomes even more crucial in order to balance and align policy goals with the need to enhance public involvement. Our study reveals that in striving to meet the formal policy requirement to implement and lead collaboration (which in turn creates the central dilemma that concerns us here) managers develop strategies to secure effectiveness rather than responsiveness. Actually, they have few possibilities to do, otherwise when the latest policy edict clearly instructs the authorities to oversee the effective implementation and achievement of goals, leaving little opportunity to pursue genuine collaboration.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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collaborative governance
coping strategies
frontline bureaucracy
large carnivores
Sweden
public management
governance
policy
communication
collaboration
performance
government
strategy
lessons
gap
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
collaborative governance
statskunskap

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