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The (Un)deserving Parent: Exploring Parental Argumentation and Sole‐Custody Decisions in Swedish Courts

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across the Western world, joint legal and physical custody is increasingly becoming the default post‐separation arrangement. While family policy and law encourage such arrangements, they may not suit every situation. In child‐custody court disputes, courts must consider whether sole legal custody is the best alternative for the child in each ...
Johanna Finnström, Ann‐Zofie Duvander
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic Centralism in a Fragmented Welfare State: Institutional Logics and Legal Paradoxes in the Chilean Case

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
wiley   +1 more source

A street view of groundwater policymaking and management in Azraq, Jordan

open access: yesWater Alternatives
Groundwater management is a complex task that includes a multitude of actors. It is even more complicated in water scarce countries with less well-established formal water governance structures.
Hoor Al-Amin   +2 more
doaj  

Why and How Do Street‐Level Managers Mobilise Informal Resources as a Routine Managerial Tool?

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Street‐level implementation work routinely involves navigating resource scarcity while still meeting policy demands. Recent literature suggests that frontline workers cope with these challenges through informal practices, including the use of personal resources.
Gabriela Lotta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION MODEL FOR HANDLING CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 19 (COVID 19) BY STREET-LEVEL BUREAUCRATS (SLB) [PDF]

open access: yes
Street-level bureaucrats are the spearhead of policy implementers, they have the power, autonomy and coping mechanisms that they carry out to produce final policies that may not be in accordance with policy demands. This study uses a qualitative approach
Wahyu Nurdiansyah Nurdin   +2 more
core  

At street-level: bureaucrats and the spaces of regulation

open access: yes, 2006
The ways in which state institutions regulate society and space have significant consequences for contemporary urban life. Regulations such as building, health and liquor codes order social practices in cities according to the political objectives of government, policy makers and local elites.
openaire   +1 more source

Selection at the Frontline: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Clients' Attributes on Assignment of Active Labour Market Programmes

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on active labour market programmes (ALMPs) suggests the existence of selection and access biases. This article addresses one potential source of such biases: frontline caseworkers' allocation decisions. To investigate how client attributes affect allocation of ALMPs to young clients with reduced work capability, we conducted a pre ...
Vegar Bjørnshagen, Therese Dokken
wiley   +1 more source

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