Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 2, Page 359-370, June 2026.ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
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Frontline workers in India's tuberculosis (TB) elimination efforts: a street-level bureaucracy perspective. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthSingh V +3 more
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Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 2, Page 382-395, June 2026.ABSTRACT Strategic improvisation often occurs in fast‐paced decision‐making environments. Yet, improvisation has received little scholarly attention in public administration and management. This knowledge gap leads to the study's research question: what drives strategic improvisation in the emergency services of a developing country?
Ian R. Hodgkinson +4 more
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A recipe for systems change: Predictive modeling and street-level bureaucracy among homeless services. [PDF]
PLoS OneSmith C, Bhaduri M.
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser +2 more
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Legitimizing incapacity: discursive choices in Norwegian sickness certificates. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv ResD'Angelo EN, Kirchhoff R, Halvorsen K.
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Digital Governance at the Street Level: A Mixed-Methods Study of Systemic Resilience and 'Human-in-the-Loop' Telemedicine in Rural Thailand. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthTarnthong N, Chaiya C.
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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
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The implementation realities of a digital antenatal care improvement intervention: Insights from ethnographic work in primary health facilities in Nepal. [PDF]
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