How is policy implementation affected by increased polarisation and extreme shifts in politics? In order to address this question, the paper focuses on frontline workers' (street-level bureaucrats') interpretations of political shifts and how these are then translated into practice. Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among social workers in Northeast Brazil, the paper proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the influence of political landscapes on policy implementation by foregrounding the political processes in which these agents play a critical role. Drawing on empirical data, the paper proposes ideal types of possible outcomes of translation practices - counterbalance, collaboration, resistance - that function as a guiding framework for future research.
CITATION STYLE
Eiró, F. (2022). Translating politics into policy implementation: welfare frontline workers in polarised Brazil. International Journal of Law in Context, 18(3), 303–316. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552322000258
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.