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Shifting repertoires: Understanding cultural plurality in policing
Hendriks,Frank van Hulst,Merlijn
Hendriks,Frank
van Hulst,Merlijn
Abstract
The police is one of the most prominent organizations in the frontline of public administration. In order to deal with high external expectations, the organization has been said to develop and nurture multiple police cultures. Applying Grid Group Cultural Theory, or GGCT, we address the following questions: what sets of values, beliefs and practices has the police organization developed to deal with high expectations stemming from their publics? How do cultural tensions play out in real-life practices of policing under pressure? We find that cultural patterns described in the general literature on policing can be plotted on the GGCT map. Zooming in on the case of policing in the Netherlands, cultural plurality appears to be not only prominent in the police organization as such, but can also be found in the form of continuous cultural tap-dancing - swift, flexible and improvisational shifting - at various levels of active policing.
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2016-06
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Research Projects
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Grid Group Cultural Theory, street-level bureaucracy, police organization, hybrid repertoires, cultural plurality, organizational shifting
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Hendriks, F & van Hulst, M 2016, 'Shifting repertoires : Understanding cultural plurality in policing', Innovation. The European Journal for Social Science Research, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2015.1128808