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Decentralization as a Means to Improve Child Welfare Practice: Community-Based Services and the Problem of Street-Level Bureaucracy [PDF]
, 1993 The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.McKenzie, Brad, Ph.D., dissertation Arizona State University, Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba - "Decentralization as a Means to Improve Child ...
McKenzie, Brad
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how social enterprises create social and economic value through business models that support ex‐offenders. The work was motivated by a request for help from an entrepreneur wishing to establish a business that supports ex‐offender rehabilitation.
Elizabeth Green +2 more
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Solidifying system of democracy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members [PDF]
, 2010 The paper examines the requirements of an effective and legitimized democratic political system in the process of transition. The analysis and the conclusions are based on the Hungarian experience, which can carefully be applied to all Central and ...
Goetz K. +9 more
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Bodily Reorientations Within Racial Imaginaries: Learning Boxing Styles in the United States
Journal for the Anthropology of North America, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boxing styles typify interrelated sets of fighting techniques and combative characters. Because boxers acquire a style through bodily practice and styles in the United States are often tied to racialized social groups, an ethnography of the acquisition of boxing styles presents an opportunity to examine how youth, in conjunction with other ...
Gabriel A. Torres Colón
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Beyond the Win: Pathways for Policy Implementation [PDF]
, 2016 When it comes to policy, a lot of attention is given to "the win." Whether it is something new and big like the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation in a large federal omnibus bill, or inclusion of critical language in a state policy, seeing the ...
Eritrea Habtemariam +3 more
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The civilizing process in London’s Old Bailey [PDF]
, 2014 The jury trial is a critical point where the state and its citizens come together to define the limits of acceptable behavior. Here we present a large-scale quantitative analysis of trial transcripts from the Old Bailey that reveal a major transition in ...
DeDeo, Simon +2 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, policy capacity has garnered increasing attention from scholars in the Global North. However, there has been limited focus on policy capacity in developing countries, particularly in Africa. While various factors, such as experience, the nature of policy tasks, and educational background, can influence the policy capacity of
Kiflie Worku Angaw +3 more
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Local Realities and the Adoption of Piecemeal Planning Practices in Mlandizi and Sirari, Tanzania
Modern GeográfiaUrban planning through local governments is constrained by challenges that place significant burdens on planners. Local realities have a profound influence on planners’ implementation of urban planning policies.
Yamungu, Nestory E. +2 more
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Frontline Employee Organizational Behavior based on street level bureaucracy reviews [PDF]
, 2020 This article discusses organizational behavior is the result of interactions between individuals in an organization. The reality of public administration in a 'street level' bureaucracy is that it cannot operate hierarchically because the agency has to ...
Dabingaya, Marianus
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano +1 more
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