A decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin in May 2000 abolished the Russian Federation State Committee for Environmental Protection and shifted its personnel and responsibilities for environmental protection to the Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources. The authors argue that,...

This is an empirical case study of "street-level" officials in a classic "regulatory" public agency: the Environmental Health Department in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana, where privatization and contracting-out of sanitary services have imposed new ways of working on Environmental Health Officers....