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Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats [PDF]
Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 369-383, August 2026.ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang +2 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although some studies focus on how bureaucrats' interactions with one another affect performance, they rarely focus on why these public servants collaborate. Bureaucrats' collaboration matters because it can significantly contribute to achieving policy goals.
Nathalie Mendez
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Social Agencies for Children and Families as Street Level Bureaucracies. A Case Study.
Social Work and Society, 2011 Social workers in public welfare services can be considered, according to Michael Lipsky theorization, street level bureaucrats. Lipsky (1980) defines as street level bureaucrats all public service workers who interact directly with citizens and have ...
Fabio Cappello
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Social Inclusion, 2021 Migration-induced diversity has led to the global emergence of multilingual life worlds in which language regimes are particularly intertwined with labour markets. Thus, state institutions such as national unemployment services must fulfil a special role
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer +2 more
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023 Research on administrative burdens has demonstrated that families experience significant costs in navigating different institutions. Yet studies have often focused more on the nature of the burdens that result from administrative rules than on the types ...
Blair Sackett, Annette Lareau
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Street-level Bureaucrats and Their Role in Public Policy
Sociologický Časopis, 2009 This article puts forward the concept of street-level bureaucrats and their role in public policy in its full complexity. In the first two parts the authors define street-level bureaucrats and the roots of the basic ideologies that determine their ...
Pavel Horák, Markéta Horáková
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Nordisk VälfärdsforskningThis article investigates the broader landscape of trust in institutional encounters between forced migrants and the welfare state. It foregrounds different actors who are positioned at differing proximities to the actual encounter and have more direct ...
Liselott Sundbäck, Camilla Nordberg
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