Towards a theory of bureaucratic behavior in collaborative natural resource governance: evidence from the US Forest Service

Chelsea Pennick
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Chelsea Pennick: University of Idaho

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Abstract: This study explores the role of front-line workers in collaborative environmental management. Using an institutional work lens and actor narratives, we reveal how collaborative institutions are created, modified and disrupted amidst conflicting logics. The results indicate that government actors engage in critical institution-building and boundary spanning practices that create opportunities for citizen influence, demonstrate responsiveness, fill institutional voids and overcome organizational barriers. These findings suggest that attention to the routines and practices of street-level bureaucrats is critical for understanding and theorizing the connection between governance design and outcomes and have important implications for the study of institutional and organizational change.

Date: 2024-08-21
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/akz3w

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