Bureaucratic Positions Research Articles

Enhancing street-level bureaucrats ’compliance with policies challenging traditional customs through information frameworks: an experimental study in China

ABSTRACT Street-level bureaucrats face serious policy compliance challenges when implementing ‘policies that run counter to traditional custom’. How can the compliance of street-level bureaucrats with such policies be enhanced? To answer this question, based on the policy context of a fireworks display ban, this paper examines the policy compliance behavioural tendencies of street-level bureaucrats under informational frames using a 2(emotional vs. logical) * 2 (gain vs. loss) experimental approach. It was found that different information frames differentially affect the policy compliance. Emotion-based information frames are more effective in strengthening street-level bureaucrats’ policy compliance than logic-based narrative frames. Emphasizing losses is more effective in enhancing street-level bureaucrats’ policy compliance than emphasizing gains. The attitude of street bureaucrats to policy plays a partly mediating role. This study provides insight into the street-level bureaucrats’ policy compliance tendencies in implementing policies that are contrary to traditional custom, emphasizing the important role of information presentation mode in policy propaganda and mobilization in intervening in the policy compliance behaviour of street-level bureaucrats.

Bureaucratic Politicization in the Process of Changing Bureaucratic Positions After the Vacancy of the Deputy Regent of Dharmasraya Regency in 2022

Bureaucratic politicization refers to introducing bureaucratic reform in the management of regional government. The regional head and deputy regional head posts are political roles that oversee administrative positions within a region, so political influence is inherently intertwined with the bureaucracy. Dharmasraya Regency exhibits signs of bureaucratic politics, as seen by a vacancy in the position of deputy regent. This vacancy has resulted in numerous examples of non-job ASN inside the government of Dharmasraya Regency. This thesis seeks to analyze the political dynamics involved in the transition of bureaucratic positions in Dharmasraya Regency, particularly after the vacancy of the deputy regent position. This study employs a qualitative research methodology utilizing a case study approach. This thesis uses the theory of bureaucratic politicization pioneered by Barbara Geddes. The findings of this study suggest that there are indicators of the techniques employed by the regent in his role as PPK to determine bureaucratic positions. The regent also has a vested interest in the bureaucracy, as he desires a loyal and efficient bureaucratic system to ensure continued control until the end of his term. The regent's politicization of the bureaucracy is seen in the ambiguous enforcement of heavy sanctions against ASN.

Unionization and Autocratization: Class Organization Strategies Under the Authoritarian Transformation in Turkey

Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime poses increasing challenges against unionization processes. While the decline of workers’ rights under this regime created a renewed impetus to unionize, barriers to unionization equally increased and diversified. Taking three recent unionization experiences as case studies, this paper explores the dynamics between class organization and authoritarian statecraft. It proposes that barriers against unionization are not consequences of authoritarian consolidation but part and parcel of its making in the Turkish context. However, they have the contradictory effect of weakening such consolidation at the everyday level by engendering a working-class politicization and desire toward democratization within unionization struggles. This paradoxical relation also reveals how unionization efforts inevitably incorporate political demands in addition to economic ones under the Turkish authoritarian circumstances and become a space of struggle against the authoritarian logic at large, whether that be the anti-democratic practices of the regime or the top-down bureaucratic attitudes of unions.

Street-level Bureaucrats and Implementation of Non-cash Food Assistance Programs: Case Study of Indonesia

Street-level Bureaucrats are bureaucrats who are at the forefront of implementing programs or policies. Their duties and functions are diverse, and based on their duties, they are expected to improve the welfare of community by implementing policies and assisting the public in services. They play an important role in policy implementation and have a strong influence on policy outcomes. This study aims to determine the value orientation of street-level bureaucrats and their attitudes toward beneficiaries in the implementation of the Non-cash Food Assistance Program. The research method uses a Mix Methods research design with a dominant scheme in a qualitative approach. The research focus areas are: (a) value orientation of street-level bureaucrats and (b) attitude of street-level bureaucrats toward beneficiaries. The total population of the study was 1916 and after calculations using a certain formula, a research sample of 95 individuals was obtained. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the value orientation of street-level bureaucrats stands out for social or cooperative orientation, while their attitude toward beneficiaries is positive so that in carrying out their duties they do not do much discretionary action. The research recommendation is that officers must always update beneficiary data and carry out external supervision in distributing aid. In addition to using mixed methods, it is also expected to conduct research using a quantitative approach to understand the effect of value orientation and attitudes on the effectiveness of program implementation.
 Keywords: street-level bureaucrats, discretion, value orientation, attitude

Representation of Women in Structural Bureaucratic Positions

The purpose of this study was to explain the level of representation of women in bureaucratic, structural positions and the inhibiting factors they face in occupying bureaucratic, structural positions in East Flores Regency. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with interviews of 13 informants determined through purposive. The results of this study explain that in the last three years, the number of female civil servants in echelons II and III is less than that of men. In 2021, there were three female civil servants left because, in 2020, one of the female civil servants died. Furthermore, in 2022, one of the female civil servants finished her term. The inhibiting factors faced by women in bureaucratic, structural positions are viewed in two forms: 1) internal constraints such as lack of self-confidence and the multiple roles played by women, 2) external constraints related to a) constraints from the family, and b) constraints from society related to the value system and norms. The research is expected as input for East Flores Regency

Bureaucratic Beliefs and Representation: Linking Social Identities, Attitudes, and Client Outcomes

Representative bureaucracy theory posits that the demographic makeup of a bureaucracy can affect how policy is implemented, especially when bureaucrats engage in “active representation” or behavior that directly advances the interests of a particular group in society. It is often assumed that active representation is motivated by the unique beliefs, convictions, or affinities experienced by bureaucrats holding particular social identities. But few studies of representative bureaucracy have attempted to directly measure the attitudes of bureaucrats, and even fewer studies examine whether such attitudes are meaningfully linked to policy outcomes. This study examines the social identities, self-perceived roles, and political preferences of local school administrators in Texas. The results confirm a link between bureaucratic managers’ social identities and distributional policy outcomes, while also suggesting that distinctive bureaucratic attitudes (as observed here) can offer at best a partial explanation for why the social identities of bureaucrats are linked to policy outcomes.

Implementation of waste management policy in Kwandang sub-district, north Gorontalo regency,

This study aims to examine the implementation of the Waste Management Policy in North Gorontalo Regency and the determinants in the implementation of the policy. Research data was collected through interviews, observation, and documentation methods. The results showed that: (1) the implementation of waste management policies in Kwandang Sub-district, North Gorontalo Regency is still not in accordance with the existing PERDA and PERBUP, as seen from the planning that is still not optimal at the sub-district and village government levels, the implementation is still not providing the expected output, and aspects of supervision and evaluation are still very weak and indecisive which causes many repeat violators errors littering; (2) factors that influence waste management policies, namely communication, supporting resources, both human and material resources, as well as bureaucratic attitudes and systems.

The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Driver of More Responsive Social Procedures: between Theory and Practices in Slovenia

Abstract Social and other administrative procedures are gaining importance because of the increasing complexity of administrative relationships brought about by the Covid‐19 pandemic, digitalisation, and other societal changes. When exercising social rights, procedural elements should be seen – both at the level of regulation and enforcement of the rules – as factors contributing to the welfare state, the rule of law, and good administration, and not as an excuse for a bureaucratic attitude. In view of the multifunctionality of social procedures, including their casual‐functional role in social relationships and their potential for a critical value‐based evaluation of the current regulation, the rationale for this study is to assess the impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on special administrative procedures conducted by the 16 social work centres (SWCs) in Slovenia. A special emphasis is placed on the informational calculation of social assistance payments, such as child benefits, kindergarten subsidies or state scholarships ‐by far the most numerous procedures involving social rights in Slovenia, with over one million cases annually. Drawing upon a normative analysis, available statistics, semi‐structured interviews with SWCs managers and surveys among employees, the findings reveal that the response of SWCs to the crisis has improved. However, largely due to the lack of coordination on the part of the line ministry, the simplifications introduced mainly benefit the public administration rather than particularly vulnerable parties to the procedure. Consequently, there is a need to pay greater attention to providing the parties with adequate protection of their constitutional rights and other elements of good public governance. Points for Practitioners In addition to analysing the direct practical implications of the legislative, organisational, and IT adaptations to the Covid‐19 pandemic, the article provides a broader study of the multifunctionality of social procedures and their role in ensuring citizens’ fundamental rights in times of socially unstable conditions. The findings are thus directly applicable for practitioners deciding on social procedures in the broader European setting, and for policymakers and legislators in the respective fields. As the conclusions are grounded on a strong methodological framework, this should contribute to advocating the much‐needed change in ensuring the protection of the basic constitutional rights in social procedures in times of crisis in Central Europe and beyond.

Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?

The attitudes of frontline bureaucrats play a crucial role in the implementation of administrative restructuring. Administrative integration is a type of administrative reform that can fundamentally change the structure of a local administrative system and may face opposition from local public bureaucracies. Successful administrative integration requires reformers to comprehensively grasp the factors that influence frontline bureaucrats’ attitudes toward this distinctive form of administrative restructuring. This study empirically examines how organizational configurations shape bureaucratic attitudes toward administrative integration. The findings have both theoretical and practical implications for research on bureaucratic attitudes, organizational configurations, and administrative integration.

Medrese ve Metin Üretimi Üzerinden Memlük Toplumsal Kimliğinin İnşası

The diversity of education in the madrasas contributed to different social groups’ feelings of belonging to the Mamluk community as well as to the formation of identity awareness. This study aims to examine the ranks the civil elite of the Mamluk period held in various scholarly and bureaucratic positions and the contribution of the texts they produced to the development of a Mamluk identity. Contrary to previous processes, the Mamluk ulama displayed a more conscious understanding of the Mamluk identity in their texts about the history of the Mamluk state and power. This study discusses how the ulama, who obtained scholarly or bureaucratic ranks because of various relationship networks they formed, constructed a Mamluk identity in their historical texts.

Views from within the State: Brazilian public managers’ perceptions from 1993–2013

This work analyzes Brazilian public managers' perceptions, exploring the values and opinions of those that have decision-making powers in the government's administration, emphasizing their views about the State's role and about their own profession. Understanding the ambitions and attitudes of federal public managers may help to address how they perceive their multitudinous roles and the influence they have in decision-making processes. Moreover, this paper contributes to a broader discussion about government bureaucracies in the Global South, using Brazil as a valid example. The specificity of the Brazilian case is addressed, as the highest bureaucratic positions in the country are appointed jobs. Utilizing data from a survey conducted in 1993 and another conducted in 2013, this paper concludes that there is no consensus among Brazilian public managers if politicians' or technicians' qualities should be more valued when occupying public management positions. It is also seen that most of the public managers interviewed had more polarized political opinions. The idea that public officials prefer to have ideologically neutral and strictly technical opinions to exercise their job does not apply to the Brazilian reality. Moreover, public managers' perceptions tend to be in accordance with the State's national acting guidelines, corresponding to the political ideology in power at the time.

Государственный интерес: рефлексивно-практическая призма Мишеля Фуко

Domestic literature on the problem of state interests (hereinafter SI) reflects, with a few exceptions, the history and modern moment of existence and vision of the political conjuncture of the country and the world dominating minorities of Russia. There are more than 11 million sites in Runet. Most of these publications have no scientific value. They can serve as many examples as possible of how the viewpoint of the public interest depends on the country’s political fluctuations and the arbitrariness of its minorities. Dependence and arbitrariness consist in the interpretation of the MI in relation to the national interests of Russia, although “…what means this expression of national interests, nobody knows exactly”. The author of the article develops the approach of K. Marx to the SI as an element of the bureaucratic attitude of the authorities towards citizens, the state towards the general state. This approach makes it possible to give permanence to the treatment of the SI, since there are still no States free from bureaucracy as a social parasite, reflecting social differences and embodying political exclusion. To take power, the USSR’s innovators had created economic, social, political, and ideological preconditions for the total bureaucratization of the State. This tradition is inherited and reinforced by the ruling minority of modern Russia. Therefore, the author proposes to raise and discuss the problem of violence and political lack of talent of the dominant minorities of Russia as a set of products of bureaucratic domination in all spheres of state policy and administration. In recent years, this approach has received a specific sociological justification4, including the qualification of the present Russian state as a parasitic one5. This article continues the author’s reconstruction of the heuristic potential of Michel Foucault’s SI concept.

Refungsionalisasi Kebijakan dalam Meningkatkan Peran Kepemimpinan Perempuan pada Jabatan Birokrasi Pemerintahan di Kabupaten Jayapura

This study aims to analyze the refunctionalization of policies in increasing the role of Women's Leadership in the Bureaucracy Position of the Jayapura Regency Government. Therefore, in this study, there are 3 main study focuses, firstly, analyzing the description of the role of women's leadership in Government Bureaucratic Positions in Jayapura Regency. Analyzing the supporting factors and inhibiting factors that affect the leadership role of women in the Government Bureaucracy Position in Jayapura Regency. Third, formulating efforts to refunctionalize policies in increasing the leadership role of women in government bureaucratic positions in Jayapura Regency. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research location is in Jayapura Regency. The technique of determining the informants was selected purposively. The data collection used includes in-depth interviews, observations, and FGDs. Data analysis techniques include the stages of data reduction, data presentation, data interpretation and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that The refunctionalization of gender-based public policies at the district government as an alternative is carried out through two choices of steps, namely direct implementation in the form of programs or through the formulation of derivative policies or derivatives of public policies based on gender mainstreaming. The author's series of investigations in policy implementation starting from programs, to projects and to activities that are in accordance with public sector management show that there are weaknesses in the politics of determining certain positions which are carried out in a closed manner so as to ignore the role of gender mainstreaming.

Expanding emotional capital in court.

This article develops the concept of emotional capital by exposing its operation in proceedings between legal elite professionals. We argue that (a) the micro-structural restraints of the interaction order among the participants have to be accounted for in order to understand the dynamics of emotional capital, and; (b) the emotional processes at play have to be expanded beyond feelings of care showing how emotions can be employed to reproduce status and power. Empirical examples from criminal courts in Scotland and the United States demonstrate that judges and prosecutors depend on emotional capital to steer the legal proceedings. Emotional capital is both stable in that acquired capital often can be transferred across fields and volatile in that it presupposes interactional agreement to ensure successful emotional capital employment. In contrast, the lack of such agreement may devalue emotional capital regardless of overall capital wealth. In high status bureaucratic positions, the conversion of emotional capital into symbolic capital not only affects the authority of individual actors but reproduces public trust in governmental institutions.

Royal chancery after 1066

This paper explores linguistic and sociolinguistic mechanisms that facilitated collaboration between English and Norman administrators in the decades following the Norman Conquest. First, a community of royal and episcopal chancellors and scribes is reconstructed from historical and documentary sources and their ties and networks are described. In the second step, two subcorpora are used to illustrate the processes of lexical selection and focusing in their common professional language, Latin: royal writs of William I and circuit returns of the Domesday inquest for the South-West. Both parts of the study demonstrate high involvement of Norman actors in the leading bureaucratic positions but, at the same time, point to their wide collaboration with the local administrative and scribal personnel. As a result, the two vernaculars are mutually enriched with new professional vocabulary, while in the written Latin standard, common to both, compromise lexical features emerge.

Politics in India via Social Media and Mass Media

The article is based on how social media and mass media especially electronic media like TV news channels impact politics in India . The advantages and disadvantages of it are also discussed . How social media and mass media builds public opinion about politics and how it affects elections is also analysed. Furtherly the impact of social media in changing the attitude of politicians and bureaucrats towards common people is understood. And finally the challenges that social media brings in political context and solutions to the same are also mentioned.

The Boycott Movement Against the American Singer Manufacturing Company in İzmir and its Neighbourhood (1910-1911)

Bu çalışmanın amacı 1910-1911 yıllarında İzmir ve havalisinde Amerikan Singer Manufacturing Company’e (SMC) karşı başlayan boykotu irdelemek olarak tanımlanır. Çalışmada Singer boykotu çerçevesinde yabancılara yönelen tepki ve bunun İzmir ve çevresindeki etkileri de incelendi. Osmanlı Devleti’nde ilk boykot 1908’de Bosna-Hersek’in Avusturya tarafından ilhakı sebebiyle başladı. Bilahare Girit meselesinden dolayı 1910-1911’de Yunan boykotu ortaya çıktı. Yunan boykotunun bir uzantısı olarak 1910’da Aydın vilayetinde, Amerikan SMC’ye karşı da bir boykot zuhur etti. Boykotun sebebi şirketin çalışanlarının büyük bölümünün Yunanlı olmasıydı. İzmir Boykotaj Cemiyeti, şirketin Yunan uyruklu çalışanlarının işten çıkarılmasını istedi. SMC, Osmanlı topraklarındaki işlerinin aksayacağı gerekçesiyle çalışanlarını korudu. Neticede İzmir ve havalisinde ve bilahare Ayvalık’ta şirkete karşı boykot başladı. Boykot, Amerikan Sefareti ile Osmanlı bürokratik makamları arasında gerginliğe yol açtı. SMC’ye yönelik boykot Amerika’ya bir tepki olmaktan daha ziyade Yunan boykotu çerçevesinde değerlendirilmelidir. Çalışmanın temel kaynaklarını Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı Osmanlı Arşivi belgeleri ve dönemin süreli yayınları oluşturmuştur.

The impacts of partnering with cancer patients in palliative care research: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Background:Palliative care (PC) is an added layer of support provided concurrently with cancer care and serves to improve wellbeing and sustain quality of life. Understanding what is meaningful and a priority to patients, their families, and caregivers with lived experience of cancer and PC is critical in supporting their needs and improving their care provision. However, the impacts of engaging cancer patients within the context of PC research remain unknown.Objective:To examine the impacts of engaging individuals with lived experience of cancer and PC as partners in PC research.Methods:An a priori systematic review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42021286744). Four databases (APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, EMBASE, and MEDLINE) were searched and only published, peer-reviewed primary English studies aligned with the following criteria were included: (1) patients, their families, and/or caregivers with lived experience of cancer and PC; (2) engaged as partners in PC research; and (3) reported the impacts of engaging cancer PC patient partners in PC research. We appraised the quality of eligible studies using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) and GRIPP2 reporting checklists.Results:Three studies that included patient partners with lived experience of cancer and PC engaged at all or several of the research stages were identified. Our thematic meta-synthesis revealed impacts (benefits and opportunities) on patient partners (emotional, psychological, cognitive, and social), the research system (practical and ethical) and health care system (service improvements, bureaucratic attitudes, and inaction). Our findings highlight the paucity of evidence investigating the impacts of engaging patients, their families and caregivers with lived experience of cancer and PC, as partners in PC research.Conclusions:The results of this review and meta-synthesis can inform the more effective design of cancer patient partnerships in PC research and the development of feasible and effective strategies given the cancer and PC context patient partners are coming from.

Populism and Bureaucratic Frictions: Lessons From Bolsonarism

How do populist governments approach public bureaucracies? Here we reflect on the rise of Bolsonarism as a form of populism in the Brazilian context and on its relationship with public bureaucracies. Bolsonaro’s “strategy of governing” builds on an unstable coalition that combines neoconservatism, market-oriented economic approach and military nationalism and corporativism. We analyze how the antagonism at the center of this coalition shapes bureaucratic strategic positions and defend an understanding of Bolsonarism as an ideology of contentious governing that nurtures divisive bureaucracies.

IMPLEMENTASI PENGEMBANGAN ENERGI BARU TERBARUKAN PEMBANGKIT LISTRIK TENAGA MIKRO HIDRO (PLTMH) OLEH DINAS ENERGI DAN SUMBER DAYA MINERAL PROVINSI SUMATERA BARAT DI SOLOK SELATAN

This study aims to determine the Renewable Energy Development Implementation in South Solok Regency. New and Renewable Energy is clean energy that is rich in diversity and quantity such as solar energy, wind, natural gas, ocean waves, garbage, wood, biomass, nuclear and water (microhydro). New and Renewable Energy was developed by the West Sumatra Provincial ESDM Office in the South Solok area since 2013, however, in implementing this development there were still some obstacles which was faced by the West Sumatra Provincial ESDM Office as the community which has not felt the impact of developing the benefits of PLTMH. It was because there were some PLTMH which were not functioning or have damaged caused by natural disasters such as floods and landslides, there was still a lack of technicians to repair the damage to the PLTMH, there was still a lack of costs obtained from PLTMH customers who aimed to repair damage to PLTMH generators and turbines. This study was a qualitative research which used descriptive method. The research respondents were selected by using a purposive sampling technique. For the data collection, this study used interview guidelines, observation, and documentation of the research as the instrumentation. The validation technique used the triangulation method. Furthermore, the data analysis technique was reducing data, displaying data, and drawing the conclusions of the study which has been conducted. The findings showed that the Renewable Energy Development implementation for Micro Hydro Power Plants (PLTMH) by the ESDM Office of West Sumatra Province in South Solok was still not running as it should be, because there were still some obstacles which were faced in developing of New Renewable Energy of PLTMH that the results was not being implemented properly. Supporting factors for the implementation of this PLTMH development were the data and information, communication, bureaucratic attitudes, and organizational structure. While communication, organizational characteristics, economic environment and human resources were the inhibiting factors. The Effort to overcome these obstacles was the government has signed several commitments related to the development of Renewable Energy. Beside that, to fill the conditions of the national electricity, the government has also involved the private sector