This Element aims to connect the literature of street-level bureaucrats with that of policy entrepreneurship in order to analyze why and how bureaucrats operati

Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that g

Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepr

When the objectives of public policy programmes have been formulated and decided upon, implementation seems just a matter of following instructions. However, it

Street-Level Bureaucracy is an insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, as they wield their considerable d