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Street Level Bureaucracy in Public Services to the Elderly in Kosovo

, 2023
Valtiza Leminota
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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Of the State, against the State: Public Defenders, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Discretion in Criminal Court

, 2023
Gillian Slee
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URBAN AGRICULTURE AS A PLATFORM OF EVERYDAY GOVERNANCE: Case Studies of Policy and Practice in Three South Korean Community Gardens

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Korea, urban agriculture (UA) was formalized through national legislation in 2011 and has since become widespread in cities across the country. More than ten years after the passage of the Act on Development and Support of Urban Agriculture, there is still little research examining the sociopolitical context in which UA is practiced ...
Ilana Herold, Buhm Soon Park
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Consultation on the future direction of skills policy (skills for sustainable growth) [PDF]

, 2010
This paper outlines BIS' emerging vision for skills and explores some key areas where further views are sought. It sets the context for the technical funding system and methodology consultation 'A Simplified Further Education and Skills Funding System ...

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CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
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‘Street-level bureaucracy, management and the corrupted world of service’ [PDF]

, 2016
Evans, Antony
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SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I draw on the embodied experience of driving into potholes and on bumpy roads in Hyderabad to show how pockmarked roads become a terrain on which political sensibilities are shaped. Drawing on ethnographic material collected over six years, I analyze how potholes shape driving dispositions in a city that is attempting to brand ...
Sneha Annavarapu
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'Implementation deficit' and 'street-level bureaucracy': policy, practice and change in the development of community nursing issues

, 2004
Ann Bergen, Alison While
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