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The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Representative bureaucracy theory is central to public administration scholarship due to the likely relationship between the demographic composition of the public workforce and both the actual and perceived performance of public organizations.
Gershenson, Seth, Holt, Stephen B.
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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational adaptation, task complexity, and effective administration of unemployment programs in the American states

open access: yesJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.
Abstract IT modernization reforms seek to improve administrative performance by improving the delivery of program benefits. Performance benefits manifest in a reduction in agency‐induced administrative errors, and a reduction in performance gaps between high and low complexity task caseloads.
George A. Krause, Ji Hyeun Hong
wiley   +1 more source

“Having Experience of What to Do to Succeed”: Unsettling Neoliberalism Through the Lived Experiences of Microcredit Trader‐Borrowers in Ibadan

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
wiley   +1 more source

Michael Lipsky, 'Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration.
Gilson, L
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Space Matters: Marketplace and Interactional Order in the Nepalese “Manpower Bazaar”

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spatial dynamics of market interactions are underexplored in the sociological study of markets. This ethnographically informed study dives into the intricate workings of a marketplace of migrant recruiters in Nepal, colloquially known as Manpower Bazaar.
Sandhya A. S.
wiley   +1 more source

External migration management through information campaigns: street-level views and practices in Senegal

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

A systems‐theoretical exploration for understanding and enhancing policy design: Expanding an analytical locus with implications for policy studies

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Policy design has two analytical domains, policy design‐as‐formulation and policy design‐as‐content. The latter study policies as codified and constructed output of the formulation process, which is an activity directed to the process. The analytical concept ‘structural logic’ emerged as an internal property of policy text and has been ...
Guswin de Wee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

No. 04: Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
All people in South Africa have constitutionallyguaranteed language rights. To what extent do these rights apply to non-citizens and are they actually observed by various state departments and officials?
Crawhall, Nigel, Reitzes, Maxine
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