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Discretion: Whether and How Does It Promote Street-Level Bureaucrats' Taking Charge Behavior? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The extant pieces of literature on discretion has mainly focused on its effect on policy implementation and public service delivery, but few studies have looked at its influence on street-level bureaucrats' work behavior, such as taking charge behavior ...
Shuai Yuan, Zhixia Chen, Mei Sun
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Betwixt agency and accountability: re-visioning street-level bureaucrats [PDF]
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2022 This paper presents a critical assessment of the much-discussed tension between bureaucratic accountability and the contextual discretion of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ (i.e. front-line public sector workers). Based on an extensive literature review, the
Priyanshu Gupta +2 more
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Nurse champions as street-level bureaucrats: Factors which facilitate innovation, policy making, and reconstruction [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundNurse champions are front-line practitioners who implement innovation and reconstruct policy.PurposeTo understand through a network theory lens the factors that facilitate nurse champions’ engagement with radical projects, representing their ...
Daniel Sperling +4 more
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Administrative Sciences, 2021 This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between the discretion of street-level bureaucrats and their willingness to implement as well as between discretion and client meaningfulness by testing street-level bureaucrat theory ...
Mohammed Salah +2 more
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Street-Level Bureaucrats e integrazione dei migranti
Sociologia del Diritto, 2023 L’articolo affronta la questione di come gli street-level bureaucrats si sono adattati e hanno reagito alle difficoltà causate dai cambiamenti decisi dai policy maker nel campo delle politiche sociali e in particolare nelle politiche migratorie.
Vittorio Lannutti
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Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2021 This article builds on qualitative interviews with employees in Norwegian and Swedish welfare state institutions and explores how they experience and make sense of their work with newly arrived refugees.
Nerina Weiss, Nina Gren
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Earth System Governance, 2021 Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who implement and shape environmental policies and interventions on the ground. These actors conduct the
Kirsty Holstead +2 more
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Gates Open Research, 2021 Background: Equitable access to health services can be constrained in countries where private practitioners make up a large portion of primary care providers.
Dominic Montagu +2 more
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Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2023 Affiliated college academic staff members in India represent an abundance of frontline knowledges which hold great promise for impacting bottom-up policy.
Matthew A. Witenstein, Joanna Abdallah
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Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices
Comparative Migration Studies, 2021 This article analyses how border guards as members of a state organisation shape the movement of non-nationals into the territory of a nation state. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Swiss Border Guard (SBG), it explores the rationalities—understood
Christin Achermann
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