Legal Compliance in Street-Level Bureaucracy: A Study of UK Housing Officers
Legal Compliance in Street-Level Bureaucracy: A Study of UK Housing Officers
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街头官僚机构的法律合规性：英国住房官员的研究
DOI：
10.1111/lapo.12049
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Hunter C
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作者：
Hunter C
街头官僚理论目前处于相当成熟的阶段。把重点放在街头官僚作为最终的政策制定者上，这一点现在既熟悉又重要。同样，对公法在公共组织中实施的平行社会法学研究也表明，书中的法律与行动中的法律之间存在着不可避免的差距。然而，这些进步的成功是以我们忽视法律本身的重要性为潜在代价的。本文分析了英国无家可归法中关于脆弱性这一法律概念的决策实证数据。我们的分析提供了两个主要贡献。首先，我们认为，当涉及到法律的执行时，必须考虑到官僚的法律能力和倾向。官僚理解法律材料的能力对法律遵守的可能性有很大影响。其次，我们还必须注意法律条款的性质。如果一项规定很简单，它更有可能促进法律知识，并且在法律能力方面不要求官僚。如果该规定也是无害的和适宜居住的，那么它就不太可能成为法律责任感的障碍。
Street‐level bureaucratic theory is now at a fairly mature stage. The focus on street‐level bureaucrats asultimate policymakersis now as familiar as it is important. Likewise, the parallel sociolegal study of the implementation of public law in public organizations has demonstrated the inevitable gap between law‐in‐the‐books and law‐in‐action. Yet, the success of these advances comes at the potential cost of us losing sight of the importance of law itself. This article analyzes some empirical data on the decision making about one legal concept—vulnerabilityin UK homelessness law. Our analysis offers two main contributions. First, we argue that, when it comes to the implementation of law, the legal abilities and propensities of the bureaucrats must be taken into account. Bureaucrats' abilities to understand legal materials make a difference to the likelihood of legal compliance. Second, we must also pay attention to the character of the legal provisions. Where a provision is simple, it is more likely to facilitate legal knowledge and demands nothing of bureaucrats in terms of legal competence. Where the provision is alsoinoffensiveandliveable, it is less likely to act as an impediment to legal conscientiousness.