Abstract The subnational level of federal states constitutes a critical arena for understanding the implementation of international rules, with subnational entities often exercising significant discretion. This paper studies the subnational implementation of a European Union (EU) data protection instrument in Switzerland, a salient case of EU external ...
Matthieu Niederhauser
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The Single Supervisory Mechanism - Panacea or Quack Banking Regulation? : preliminary assessment of the evolving regime for the prudential supervision of banks with ECB involvement : [Version: 16 August 2013] [PDF]
This paper analyzes the evolving architecture for the prudential supervision of banks in the euro area. It is primarily concerned with the likely effectiveness of the SSM as a regime that intends to bolster financial stability in the steady state.
Tröger, Tobias
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Abstract This article analyses the European Commission's (Commission) capacity to manage and deepen the EU–UK relationship post the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and its efforts to expand its competencies within the framework, through the use of the principal–agent theory.
David Moloney, Simon Usherwood
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Autonomy and street-level bureaucrats’ coping strategies [PDF]
Frontline practitioners like teachers in public-sector education systems are not policy takers but policy makers, according to Michael Lipsky’s seminal treatise Street-Level Bureaucracy, first published in 1980. They make policy by using their wide autonomy to adopt coping mechanisms, such as limiting client demand and creaming (cherry-picking). Winter
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Abstract Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of street‐level bureaucracy and the evolving role of prosecutors under institutional pressure, this article offers an empirical contribution to the literature on ‘crimmigration’. It interrogates how prosecutors interpret their role within human‐smuggling cases and how these interpretations affect the ...
FLAVIA PATANÈ
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Discretion and local health policy implementation: street-level bureaucrats and integrative and complementary therapies in Santos' local health units. [PDF]
Macena A, Oliveira VE.
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Discretionary Decision-Making in a Changing Context of Activation Policies and Welfare Reforms [PDF]
Street-level bureaucrats are considered to be subject to bureaucratic managerial regimes and threatened by stronger regulation and a reduction in their ability to exercise control over their work.
Jessen, Jorunn Theresia, Tufte, Per Arne
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Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg +3 more
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No. 04: Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa [PDF]
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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Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth:explaining divergent trajectories in Africa [PDF]
Why are urban plans, land use regulations and construction codes implemented effectively in some African states but not others? This constitutes an increasingly urgent development concern with major implications for the environment and the urban poor ...
Goodfellow, Tom
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