COPING

Policy implementation in stressful times: Analyzing coping strategies of civil servants

 Coordinatore ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM 

 Organization address address: BURGEMEESTER OUDLAAN 50
city: ROTTERDAM
postcode: 3062 PA

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Patrick
Cognome: Heeres
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 10 4082063
Fax: +31 10 4089103

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Netherlands [NL]
 Totale costo 181˙260 €
 EC contributo 181˙260 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-08-01   -   2015-07-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM

 Organization address address: BURGEMEESTER OUDLAAN 50
city: ROTTERDAM
postcode: 3062 PA

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Patrick
Cognome: Heeres
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 10 4082063
Fax: +31 10 4089103

NL (ROTTERDAM) coordinator 181˙260.60

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stress    coping    psychology    strategies    governmental    civil    he    surveys    cope    classification    ways    insurance    policy    clinical    literature    reassessments    university    policies    benefit   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project focuses on coping strategies civil servants use when they experience stress during implementing governmental policies. Consider an insurance physician who has to reassess a huge number of clients receiving a work disability benefit, in order to check whether they are still entitled to this benefit. Will he cope with this high workload by becoming less thorough, handling reassessments quicker? Or will he cope by talking to his manager, arguing that he should receive more time to preserve high quality reassessments? This real-world example shows that insurance physicians can cope with stress during policy implementation in various ways. Policy implementation scholars note that the phenomenon of coping is very important, as some coping strategies seriously threaten the effectiveness and legitimacy of governmental policies. However, coping during policy implementation lacks systematic study. This project thoroughly analyses coping during policy implementation. It makes extensive use of clinical psychology literature, which has an strong track-record on coping. Hence, it follows a truly interdisciplinary approach, combining policy implementation and clinical psychology literature. It has three aims: 1) to construct a definition and classification of ways of coping during policy implementation, 2) to develop a related measurement instrument to measure ways of coping (using surveys), 3) to identify the main antecedents of ways coping (for instance, what causes a civil servant to engage in rule-breaking as a way of coping?). Literature reviews, interviews and surveys methods will be used extensively. The project is innovative in two ways: theoretically (building among else a classification of coping) and methodologically (using advanced quantitative techniques very novel to the policy implementation field). It will be conducted at the prestigious University of California, Berkeley and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, a top European research university.'

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