Volunteer or Street-Level Bureaucrat: The Poll Worker and the "Space Between"

• In Event: Election Administration and Local Election Officials

Brief Overview

Poll work is unique in that it is voluntary, yet it is also paid work that allows discretion of a street-level bureaucrat without the organizational norms found within bureaucracies. This paper explores the "in-between" space.

Author

• Vicki Moore Lavastida, University of Oklahoma