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Navigating health system constraints and risks for childbirth care in rural Guinea: the role of women’s agency

Critical Public Health
Women with reproductive desires and needs face various health system constraints in the Global South. Certain biomedical practices, such as C-section, are also perceived by women as risky.
Bienvenu Salim Camara, Bregje de Kok, Thérèse Delvaux, Alexandre Delamou, Koen Peeters Grietens, Trudie Gerrits   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Markets: Sociology, street‐level bureaucracy, and the management of the public sector [PDF]

, 2011
Michael J. Piore
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Policy success and failure in Australia

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water ...
Keith Dowding, Patrick Leslie, Marija Taflaga   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of religious institutional logic in frontline work

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research analyses the influence of religion—as an institutional logic—on the work of frontline workers (FLWs) in hybrid public policy implementation contexts. We conducted semi‐structured interviews and used vignettes with 37 therapeutic communities (TCs) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which provide care for individuals with ...
Giordano Magri, Ana Cláudia Cortez, Maria Izabel Sanches Costa, Adriana Carvalho, Gabriela Lotta, Juliana Rocha Miranda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Burocracia de Nível de Rua na Discricionariedade Docente

Educação & Realidade, 2022
O estudo objetiva analisar a atuação do professor como burocrata de nível de rua e o papel da discricionariedade docente na escola. O artigo apresenta resultados de uma pesquisa realizada em 2019, em uma escola pública de São Gonçalo/RJ.
Tereza Cristina de Almeida Guimarães, Elisangela da Silva Bernado, Amanda Moreira Borde da Costa Marques   +2 more
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The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Health Care Workers’ Experiences on Enacting Policy on Technology with Citizens with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2020
Torhild Holthe,1 Liv Halvorsrud,2 Erik Thorstensen,3 Dag Karterud,2 Debbie Laliberte Rudman,4 Anne Lund1 1Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Occupational Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Oslo, Norway; 2Oslo ...
Holthe T, Halvorsrud L, Thorstensen E, Karterud D, Laliberte Rudman D, Lund A   +5 more
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From street-level to screen-level bureaucracy: Front-line public servants’ recordkeeping behaviours in ICT-enabled agencies [PDF]

, 2018
Anita Rapson
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How do frontline tax workers assess citizen-clients’ trustworthiness? The role of signals and status characteristics [PDF]

, 2015
Within the literature on street-level workers’ encounters with citizens it is generally known that bureaucrats’ decision making is partly dependent on the relationship they have with them.
Groeneveld, S.M. (Sandra), Raaphorst, N.J. (Nadine)   +1 more
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Public service supply chain management: A study of Australian employment services

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract To continuously improve public service provision has been a stated goal of governments worldwide. Despite the increasing popularity of systems approaches to analysing public service delivery, research into the topic from a supply chain management (SCM) perspective, while acknowledged for its potential contribution to improving public service ...
Phuc Nguyen, Michael McGann, Mark Considine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source