被指责的官员:监察员感知到的指责风险会影响其执法风格吗?

Blaming the bureaucrat:does perceived blame risk influence inspectors'enforcement style?

基层官员的执法风格与他们对指责风险的感知之间是否存在关系?本文根据对荷兰食品和产品安全局监察员的调查(n=507)解答了这个问题。本研究也将媒体对基层官员工作的关注视为可能影响这些官员感知指责风险及改变对执法风格的一个因素。与早期的研究不同,执法风格现在被分为三个维度:法律型、协助型和适应型风格。本研究发现,当监察员察觉到更多指责风险时,他们采用的法律型风格会稍微少一些;相反,他们会采用更适应的风格,因此他们的行为不那么正式,不那么带有强制性(即法律型),并会更多地考虑同行的意见(即适应型)。然而,监察员感知到的媒体关注对其执法风格没有显著影响。

Is there a relation between street-level bureaucrats'enforcement style and their perception of the risk of getting blamed?This article answers this question on the basis ofa survey(n=507)among inspectors of the Netherlands Food and Product Safety Authority.We included perceived media attention on their work as a factor that might influence street-level bureaucrats'perception of blame risk and their enforcement style.Three dimensions of enforcement style were distinguished from earlier research:legal,facilitative and accommodative.We found that when inspectors perceive more blame risk,they employ a slightly less legal style and,instead,employ a more accommodative style.Thus,they act a litde less formally and less coercively(i.e.legal)and take greater account of their peers'opinions(i.e.accommodative).However,perceived media attention did not have a significant influence on enforcement style.