Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs: The Nexus between Timing of Traffic Enforcement Activities and Road Safety Policy Outcomes

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dc.contributor.authorZedekia Sidha
dc.contributor.authorPatrick Asingo
dc.contributor.authorJustine Magutu
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-06T09:06:54Z
dc.date.available2026-07-06T09:06:54Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the influence of street-level bureaucratic discretion over the timing of implementation on road safety policy outcomes. It is premised on freshly collected data from road users and traffic enforcement officers in Nairobi, Kenya. It employed Street-Level Bureaucratic Theory for purposes of conceptualization. It observed that traffic police divisions, like most street-level bureaucracies, are chronically under-resourced. They do not have sufficient officers and equipment to monitor safety police compliance and conduct traffic control activities among other roles. To cope with these challenges, they make discretionary choices over activities to concentrate on at any given time. Given that the police play an important role in fostering road safety policy compliance, the study concludes that their failure to target safety implementation at the time when the violations are prevalent is linked to the incessant road safety policy failures across the globe.
dc.identifier.citationSidha, Z., Asingo, P. and Magutu, J. (2021), Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs: The Nexus between Timing of Traffic Enforcement Activities and Road Safety Policy Outcomes. Politics Policy, 49: 186-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12386
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12386
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ndu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/224
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley Online Library
dc.titleStreet-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs: The Nexus between Timing of Traffic Enforcement Activities and Road Safety Policy Outcomes
dc.typeArticle

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