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Do street-level bureaucrats have discretionary power? Analysing the immigration detention policy implementation from the perspective of organizational power struggles in Belgian ‘closed centres'

Political Research Exchange
‘Discretionary power' suffers from conceptual ambiguity. Is it an attribute of individual street-level bureaucrats, or an organizational prerogative?
Andrew Crosby
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability of Public Servants at the Street Level

, 2019
Public servants are accountable to the public – as their name suggests. However, the question of accountability is not as clear as it seems. Public servants working at the street level of government bureaucracy enjoy discretion in the implementation of ...
Fritz Sager, Thomann, Eva, Sager, Fritz, Hupe, Peter, Peter Hupe, Eva Thomann   +5 more
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

Does the New Managerialism Stabilise Gender Asymmetries in Street-Level Interactions? The case of Germany after ‘Hartz IV’

Social Work and Society, 2015
The new ‘basic allowance for job seekers’ (‘Hartz IV’) introduced in Germany in 2005 was accompanied by a claim that ‘activating’ labour market policies would increase gender equality, not least by requiring mothers without a breadwinning partner to take
Karen Jaehrling
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Street Level Bureaucracy Dalam Pelaksanaan Kebijakan Perawatan Tersangka Di Badan Narkotika Nasional Provinsi Jawa Tengah [PDF]

Permasalahan-permasalahan yang menimpa tersangka sering menjadi headline media massa baik kekerasan, pemerasan, perlakuan tidak menyenangkan dan tidak ada keadilan yang menimpa tersangka. Paradigma tersangka masih dianggap individu yang bersalah sehingga
BISMA, MUHAMMAD FAISAL
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supplemental_material_pdf – Supplemental material for Unionization and Street-Level Bureaucracy: An Examination of Public School Teachers in the United States

, 2019
Supplemental material, supplemental_material_pdf for Unionization and Street-Level Bureaucracy: An Examination of Public School Teachers in the United States by Zachary Oberfield in Review of Public Personnel ...
Zachary Oberfield (8209737)
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