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At street-level: bureaucrats and the spaces of regulation
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.
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Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime
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
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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
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Access to Healthcare in Brazilian Prisons: Why is it Important to Look at the Bureaucracy and Policy Implementation? [PDF]
Bartos MSH.
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Blame-Avoidance Behaviors of Street-Level Bureaucrats Under Multiple Stressors
Haixin Teng, Ge wang
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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
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Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts [PDF]
Silvia Lucciarini +2 more
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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
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The McDonaldisation of Schooling and the Street‐level Bureaucrat [PDF]
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