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Street-level bureaucrats: En studie om möjligheten att skapa policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the book ”street-level bureaucracy dilemmas of the individual in public services” (2010) the author Michael Lipsky writes about the individual in public services. Lipsky presents a theory about street-level bureaucrats as policy makers. He argues that
Ekdahl, Patrik
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WORKING THE GREY AREA: Street‑Level Refugee Housing Governance in Sweden

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how refugee housing provision under the Swedish dispersal programme produces uneven pathways to housing stability. Although residence‐permit‐holding refugees assigned to the municipalities are granted the right to housing, there are no stipulations regarding housing type, quality, or duration, resulting in significant ...
Nicolina Ewards Öberg
wiley   +1 more source

Street-level bureaucracy in tobacco control: A qualitative study of health department in district Jalandhar, Punjab

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine, 2018
Background: The implementers of the tobacco control policy in the field have been neglected by the policymakers. They are the ones who have first-hand knowledge and their experiences in the field are not being used to bring about changes in the area of ...
Shaveta Menon
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Street-level bureaucrats’ action in the implementation of public policies in Brazil: a proposal for expanded analysis

open access: yes, 2019
This article analyzes the multiple dimensions of street-level bureaucrats’ action in the implementation of public policies in the Brazilian context.
DENILSON BANDEIRA COÊLHO (8110691)   +3 more
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Institutional Entanglements: How Institutional Knots and Reverberating Consequences Burden Refugee Families

open access: yesRSF: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Street-level bureaucracy in the pandemic: the perception of frontline social workers on policy implementation

open access: yesRevista de Administração Pública, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the strategic role of social care policy to minimize the effects of this health crisis and its consequences on the poorest and most vulnerable population.
Fernanda Lima-Silva   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Are bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In an influential paper, Hall and Liebman (QJE, 1998) ask if senior corporate executives are really paid like bureaucrats, and conclude that they are not.
Raddemaker, S., Boyle, G.
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