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Public Professionals and Policy implementation

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  • Lars Tummers
  • Brenda Vermeeren
  • Bram Steijn
  • Victor Bekkers

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Nowadays, public policies often focus on economic values, such as efficiency and financial transparency. Public professionals often resist implementing such policies. We analyse this using the concept of ‘role conflicts’. We use a novel approach by conceptualizing and measuring role conflicts on the policy level, thereby linking policy implementation and social psychology research. We construct and test scales for policy-client, policy-professional and organizational-professional role conflicts. Using survey data, we show that policy-professional and policy-client role conflicts negatively influence the willingness of public professionals to implement policies. In concluding, we conceptualized and measured three role conflicts that can occur during policy implementation.

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  • Lars Tummers & Brenda Vermeeren & Bram Steijn & Victor Bekkers, 2012. "Public Professionals and Policy implementation," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(8), pages 1041-1059, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:14:y:2012:i:8:p:1041-1059
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.662443
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    1. Norin Arshed & Colin Mason & Sara Carter, 2016. "Exploring the disconnect in policy implementation: A case of enterprise policy in England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(8), pages 1582-1611, December.
    2. Maayan Davidovitz & Nissim Cohen, 2022. "Alone in the campaign: Distrust in regulators and the coping of front‐line workers," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(4), pages 1005-1021, October.
    3. Borrass, Lars, 2014. "Varying practices of implementing the Habitats Directive in German and British forests," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 151-160.
    4. Eva Lieberherr & Eva Thomann, 2020. "Linking throughput and output legitimacy in Swiss forest policy implementation," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 53(3), pages 495-533, September.

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