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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Outsourcing Domestic Work in the Crisis of Social Reproduction: Platform‐Mediated Cleaning and the Role of Clients

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the crisis of social reproduction, outsourcing domestic work has become increasingly appealing, with labour platforms offering new avenues to do so. This article explores the largely overlooked perspective of clients using platform‐mediated cleaning services, focusing on Helpling in Germany.
Stefanie Gerold, Katarzyna Gruszka, Karin Sardadvar, Hendrik Theine, Anna Pillinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Government Interventions Improve Local Public Service Performance? Evidence From a Synthetic Control Approach

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments in many democratic countries have the mandate to require local authorities to address failures in the management and performance of the public services that they provide. Such policies often involve the takeover of authorities to implement improvements assumed to result in organizational turnaround.
Rhys Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

South Korea's THAAD Decision at the Domestic–International Nexus: Preferences, Information, and Constraints

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Korean President Park Geun‐hye's 2016 decision to authorize the deployment of the U.S. Forces Korea THAAD system—and Beijing's subsequent economic and diplomatic coercion—marked a decisive inflection point in Seoul's China policy.
Joel Atkinson
wiley   +1 more source

From Threat to Challenge: Addressing Resistance to Diversity Through Holistic Diversity Previews and Tools

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a core public value and central to public administration. Yet, as diversity is realized through shifts in employee representation, organizational norms, and implementation practices, some members of socially privileged groups (e.g., White employees, men) experience discomfort and anxiety in
Ines Jurcevic, Felix Danbold, Miguel M. Unzueta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
wiley   +1 more source

The Environmental Race to the Bottom, Revisited

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits the environmental race to the bottom thesis in the United States, which argues that states compete for mobile capital by relaxing environmental regulations. Examining state‐level enforcement of federal surface mining and air pollution control regulation over a 35‐year period, we find robust evidence of strategic interaction
David M. Konisky, Neal D. Woods
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Boosting Fiscal–Occupational Welfare in Italy: ‘Quiet Politics’ and the Irresistible Attractiveness of (Micro‐)Distributive Policies

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fiscal–occupational welfare is becoming an increasingly important feature of social protection systems and state–business relations in Europe, reflecting a broader trend towards outsourcing public functions to private actors. In Italy, the 2016 and 2017 Stability Laws significantly expanded its scope and relevance.
Marcello Natili, Matteo Jessoula
wiley   +1 more source

Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy

Financial Review, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 701-723, August 2026.
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Elie Menassa, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source