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100			_aPaanakker, Hester L. _914823
245			_aValues of public craftsmanship: The mismatch between street-level ideals and institutional facilitation in the prison sector
260			_bAmerican Review of Public Administration
300			_a49(8), Nov, 2019: p.884-896.
520			_aPublic craftsmanship, as the normative prescription of a myriad of public values, is receiving renewed attention. This study aims at empirical insight into how such abstract principles acquire practical meaning in specific professional settings, and how they are practically facilitated on the shop floor. We use an explorative case study among Dutch prison professionals (N = 32) to contrast perceptions of ideal values and practices with perceptions of institutional facilitation at street level. In the case of prison officers, the institutional context of the prison was found to substantially restrain rather than support the ideals that professionals attach to good street-level craftsmanship. The study’s theoretical contribution is to show craftsmanship as uniquely localizing the normative underpinnings of good work. Empirically, the findings show how an unyielding neoliberalist administrative practice can hamper the potential of public craftsmanship and is likely to have negative impact on staff commitment and successful public service delivery. We end with implications for the further examination and development of public craftsmanship in public administration theory and practice. - Reproduced.
650			_aCraftsmanship _914824
650			_aPublic administration _914825
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
906			_aPrisons
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