Street-level bureaucrats and new modes of governance – how conflicting roles affect the implementation of the Swiss ordinance on veterinary medicinal products
Sager, F; Thomann, E; Zollinger, C; et al.van der Heiden, N; Mavrot, C
Date: 2 April 2014
Journal
Public Management Review
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publisher DOI
Abstract
Lipsky’s seminal concept of street-level bureaucrats (SLB) focuses on their role as public
servants. However, in the course of new modes of governance, private actors have gained an
additional role as implementation agents. We explore the logic of private SLBs during the
implementation of the Swiss Ordinance on Veterinary Medicinal ...
Lipsky’s seminal concept of street-level bureaucrats (SLB) focuses on their role as public
servants. However, in the course of new modes of governance, private actors have gained an
additional role as implementation agents. We explore the logic of private SLBs during the
implementation of the Swiss Ordinance on Veterinary Medicinal Products (OVMP) where
veterinarians are simultaneously implementing agents, policy addressees, and professionals
with economic interests. We argue that, because of contradictory reference systems, it is
problematic for the output performance if an actor is simultaneously the target group of a
policy and its implementing agent
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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