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How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In health care regulation, open outcome‐oriented standards are used to provide flexibility for care organizations to determine how to deal with complex issues. What remains understudied is how this works out in practice. This paper studies how inspectors use open standards to regulate the complex issue of person‐centered care.
Mirjam Kalisvaart, Lieke Oldenhof, Roland Bal, Anne Margriet Pot   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority

Big 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, Floris Bex, Nitin Narayan, Manuella van der Put   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selection and Oversight in the Public Sector, With the Los Angeles Police Department as an Example [PDF]

I offer theoretical and empirical observations on the oversight of public sector employees. I argue that it is unreasonable to expect that the solutions typically considered in the literature will be effective with public sector employees, because ...
Canice Prendergast
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Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin, Hana Shepherd, Jenn Round, Jake Barnes, Janice Fine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pockets of Participation: Bureaucratic Incentives and Participatory Irrigation Management in Thailand

Water 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  

The Fragility of Trust: Interpersonal Encounters, Institutional Distrust, and Conditional Spillovers in the Area of Social Service Delivery

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines social assistance for vulnerable families at the frontline level of service delivery, exploring how citizens' trust and distrust are shaped within this administrative context. It addresses three questions: Do citizens distinguish between trust and distrust in frontline workers and public institutions when reporting on their
Christian Lahusen, Jelena Ceriman, Anastasia Kafe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché, Jacques de Maillard, Julien Noble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Street-Level Innovators: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Driving Local Innovation

Journal of Public Policy and Administration
This study examined the roles and importance of street-level bureaucrats in advancing innovation in local government. While previous research has emphasized their influence on policymaking in security, welfare, and education, this study focused on their role in innovation, based on perspectives of professionals and managers in the field.
openaire   +1 more source

The Legitimacy Trap: How Regulators' Credibility‐Building Constrains Responsiveness Under Politicization

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops an analytical framework for understanding regulators' struggles for legitimacy, highlighting tensions between two key sources: credibility and responsiveness. A regulator must earn credibility with actors around the regulatory arena, but organizational tools for credibility‐building, including codified rules and mobilized
Takuya Onoda
wiley   +1 more source

Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
wiley   +1 more source