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Nonprofit Policy ForumA significant amount of nonprofit work happens on the “frontlines”—interacting directly with clients and developing relationships with them in unpredictable and complex social service settings.
Oelberger Carrie
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Nordisk VälfärdsforskningThis article investigates the broader landscape of trust in institutional encounters between forced migrants and the welfare state. It foregrounds different actors who are positioned at differing proximities to the actual encounter and have more direct ...
Liselott Sundbäck, Camilla Nordberg
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Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2019 The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city.
Piñeiro Esteban +2 more
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Representative Bureaucracy, Ethnicity, and Public Schools: Examining the Link Between Representation and Performance [PDF]
, 2002 Demographic changes in the United States have led to challenges for public organizations that are tasked to serve shifting target populations. Many arguments exist for including greater numbers of ethnic minorities among an organization's personnel ...
David W. Pitts
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Political Research ExchangeThe implementation of European-funded migration policies in Senegal involves diverse street-level bureaucrats. Among them are migrant returnees and local migration policy experts who implement migration information campaigns.
Katerina Glyniadaki +2 more
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From “Clientelism” to a “Client-centred orientation”? The challenge of public administration reform in Russia [PDF]
, 2007 The inefficiency, corruption and lack of accountability that afflict public administration in Russia impose substantial direct costs on both entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.
Tompson, William
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From Bureaucracy to Enterprise? The Changing Jobs and Careers of Managers in Telecommunications Service [PDF]
, 1995 This paper analyzes how organizational restructuring is affecting managerial labor markets. Drawing on field research from several Bell operating companies plus a detailed survey of managers in one company, this paper considers how organizational ...
Batt, Rosemary
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Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding” [PDF]
GovernanceAbstractThis special issue investigates the impact of populism and democratic backsliding on street‐level bureaucracy (SLB) across various countries and contexts. The cooccurrence of populism and democratic erosion significantly alters public administration, particularly affecting public sector employees responsible for policy implementation.
Lotta, G.S. +2 more
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Ethnic Diversity and Organizational Performance: Assessing Diversity Effects at the Managerial and Street Levels [PDF]
, 2003 As the public sector workforce becomes more ethnically diverse and as government agencies make attempts to "manage" that diversity, the importance of understanding how diversity affects workplace interactions and work-related outcomes increases.
David W. Pitts, Elizabeth M. Jarry
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Critical Public HealthWomen 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 +5 more
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