Doctoral Dissertation Research in Law and Social Science

联邦官僚机构在竞争的环境中运作 政治、经济和组织力量， 从联邦到地方 这项研究解决了 如何以及在多大程度上执行 联邦官僚机构对当地环境作出反应， 采取强制行动。 通过她的博士 博士的指导下Scholz，女士Headrick 将审查职业安全局的安全执行情况， 卫生管理局（OSHA）。 这项研究扩展了现有的工作 通过分析执行官僚机构的相互作用， 城市政治和联邦机构的行为，使用详细的当地 在其他分析级别上不可用的级别度量，以映射 更明确地说， 研究了 它分析了三个文献中的假设- 实施、监管和城市政治-在城市 水平 通过定量和定性分析， 假设测试揭示了这些力量如何影响激励 “街头”执法者- OSHA检查员-增加 或降低执法水平。 该项目拥有大量 承诺推进我们对官僚主义 行动是对内部和外部压力的反应。 的 对官僚问责制的影响，在这方面， 案件，法律的执行过程，也将是 阐明。

Federal bureaucracies operate in an environment of competing forces - political, economic and organizational - at every level from federal to local. This research addresses the question of how and to what extent the enforcement actions of federal bureaucracies respond to the local environment in which enforcement actions take place. Through her doctoral dissertation, under the direction of Dr. Scholz, Ms. Headrick will examine safety enforcement by the Occupational Safety and Health Administrtaion (OSHA). The study extends existing work on enforcement bureaucracies by analyzing the interaction of city politics and federal agency behavior, using detailed local level measures not available at other levels of analysis to map more explicitly the mechanisms linking variables already studied. It analyzes hypotheses from three literatures - implementation, regulation and urban politics - at the city level. Using both quantitative and qualitative analysis, hypotheses tested reveal how these forces affect the incentives of "street-level" enforcers - OSHA inspectors - that increase or reduce the enforcement level. The project holds substantial promise of advancing our understanding of how bureaucratic actions respond to internal and external pressures. The resulting effects on bureaucratric accountability, and in this case, the process of legal enforcement, also will be elucidated.