Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: structure, collaboration and professional standards
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Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2024
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Governance
Themenheft
Street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
37
Ausgabe / Nummer
S1
Seiten / Dauer
21-40
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Wiley
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Auflage
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Zusammenfassung
This article investigates how organizational structure, collaboration, and professional standards influence the resilience of public agencies facing adversity. It links organizational reputation and blame avoidance literature with resilience and collaboration literature. We use the case of the Swiss Child and Adult Protection Agencies (CAPA), which faced massive media attacks. We apply a qualitative research design analyzing data from interviews and participatory observations. Our findings show that professional organizational structure, collaboration and standards are three interrelated factors that increase resilience against adversity. In particular, these factors reduce “blame-avoiding policy implementation” (BAPI), which is a coping strategy where street-level bureaucrats (SLB) exploit their discretion to make policy implementation less blameworthy. In their interplay, professional organizational structure, collaboration and standards increase the knowledge of a public agency about a particular situation because they enable better-informed decisions through collective deliberation practices, and strengthens the collective ownership as well as the individual SLB's confidence that the right decision is being made.
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Fachgebiet (DDC)
Veranstaltung
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Enddatum der Ausstellung
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Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1468-0491
0952-1895
0952-1895
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Nein
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Hybrid
Lizenz
Zitation
Stauffer, B., Sager, F., & Künzler, J. (2024). Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: structure, collaboration and professional standards. Governance, 37(S1), 21–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12802