Street-level Bureaucrats and the Social Construction of Environmental Control
通过访谈和民族志观察，研究监管检查员如何通过协商性控制应对法律和社会模糊性，并构建地方道德秩序和标准，对理解工业监管中的微观政治有参考价值。
This article explores the micropolitics of environmental regulation of industry through interviews with, and ethnographic observations of, regulatory inspectors. As street-level bureaucrats, inspectors are seen to cope with the legal and social ambiguities of their work mainly through negotiative forms of control — which are often idiosyncratic and partial. How inspectors construct local moral orders and standards, in interaction with industrial operators, is explored in some detail, especially the role of organizational ritual, symbols and emotional display as tools of control. The importance of understanding the processes of negotiated orders in the growing regulation of industry is discussed, as well as role of interpretive forms of research in such endeavours.