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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

Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
wiley   +1 more source

The Paradox of Meeting Complex Needs in a Fragmented System: Exploring the Wickedness of Support for NEET‐Situated Young People in a Local Swedish Welfare Context

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young people not in employment, education, or training (NEET) often face complex and overlapping challenges, yet the welfare services intended to support them are fragmented across organisational boundaries. This article contributes to the literature by exploring how street‐level bureaucrats in a Swedish municipality understand and navigate ...
Carl Lundberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

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