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Qui sont les « agents de terrain » des agences de l’eau ?

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires
In this article, we explore a “fuzzy” job, that of intervention officer for the Water Agencies. Real Street-level bureaucrats, these agents do not merely process subsidy applications.
Ophélie Schnitzler, François Destandau
doaj   +1 more source

The Digitalisation of Dutch Civic Integration: How Digital Technologies Shape Inequality and Bureaucratic Discretion

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Migration management is becoming increasingly digitalised, with digital borders producing inequalities by fixing framings that determine who is allowed entry and residence.
Iris Poelen, Ricky van Oers
doaj   +1 more source

Social perceptions of welfare deservingness: A scoping review of Southern European welfare systems

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
New paradigms in social intervention in response to social-political challenges are often rooted in public opinion and street-level bureaucrats’ perception of welfare deservingness.
Clara Cruz Santos   +2 more
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“We Stretched the Rules”: How Street-Level Bureaucrats in Schools Shape Newcomers’ Access to Resources

open access: yesUrban Planning
Schools play a crucial role for migrant families’ arrival processes. Educational guidelines, procedures, and requirements (such as admission waiting lists or school curricula) are translated into practices on the ground, with many school professionals ...
Heike Hanhörster, Cornelia Tippel
doaj   +1 more source

China?s challenges to future sustainable economic growth and the implications for the United States [PDF]

open access: yes
The ?stunning comeback? of China after almost two centuries is one of the most significant trends affecting Western economies, particularly the United States (US). None of the key drives that have promoted China?s growth are really at risk if the Chinese
Degen, Ronald
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Exploring the Dark Matter of Judicial Review: A Constitutional Census of the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Most debate about the power of judicial review proceeds as if courts primarily invoke the Constitution against the considered judgment of elected legislatures; most constitutional commentary focuses on confrontations between the United States Supreme ...
Kreimer, Seth F.
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Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority

open access: yesBig Data & Society
Governments increasingly use algorithms to inform or supplant decision-making. Artificial Intelligence systems in particular are considered objective, consistent and efficient decision-makers, but have also been shown to be fallible.
Daan Kolkman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From “Clientelism” to a “Client-centred orientation”? The challenge of public administration reform in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Pockets of Participation: Bureaucratic Incentives and Participatory Irrigation Management in Thailand

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2015
Despite a history of participatory policies, Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has had little success in developing water user organisations (WUOs) capable of facilitating cooperation between farmers and the irrigation agency. Even so, pockets
Jacob I. Ricks
doaj  

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