Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks

Lisa Fischer studied political science, communication science and administrative science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, the University of New Caledonia and the University of Konstanz. She wrote her dissertation at the chair for Empirical Theory and Politics of Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill. At present, she works as research associate at the Institute for Health and Generations at the Kempten University of Applied Sciences. 

Introduction.- Welfare, governance, and street-level bureaucracy: Links and research gaps.- Theory, concept, and research design.- Initial position of SLBs and their self-perception of cooperation interest.- A field experiment: The prevalence of logics that determine the cooperation interest of SLBs.- Conclusion.