01653nam a2200193   4500999001900000008004100019100002800060245010300088260000900191300001400200520101900214650002101233700002301254700002401277773002601301906001801327942001201345952010201357  c510435d510435190817b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aEngen, Nadine van98445  aDo consistent government policies lead to greater meaningfulness and legitimacy on the front line?  c2019  ap.97-115.  aWe investigate the impact of policy consistency on frontline workers’ perceptions of policy meaningfulness and legitimacy. The results from an experiment involving 779 teachers indicate that policy consistency does have a positive effect on legitimacy and to a lesser extent on meaningfulness. However, the extent depends on policy content and the degree of autonomy. Overall, our findings emphasize the potential positive impact of policy consistency. Although this, to some extent, conflicts with the nature of political decision‐ and policy‐making (i.e., democratically elected governments have been mandated to change policy), our study suggests that policy consistency could be a valuable strategy for governments to strengthen successful policy implementation. This adds a new perspective to the continuing debate within policy implementation and street‐level bureaucracy research on how to account for the complex, messy and sometimes contradictory implementation of public policies. - Reproduced.

  aLegitimacy98446  aSteijn, Bram98447  aTummers, Lars98448  aPublic Administration  aPublic policy  2ddccAR  00102ddc40709384367aIIPAbIIPAd2019-08-17h97(1), 2019: p.97-115.pAR120316r2019-08-17yAR