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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Street-level surveillance: human agency and the electronic monitoring of offenders [PDF]
, 2007 Recent years have witnessed an increase in new ‘technologies of control’ that decrease reliance upon labour intensive forms of policing. The electronic monitoring of offenders represents just one section of the expanding industry in ‘techno-corrections’
Paterson, Craig
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Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which ...
Mashail Malik
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Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age
Big Data & SocietyThis article investigates the impact of digital technology and big data analytics on street-level bureaucracy. Building onto literature that highlights the residual autonomy and resistance of practitioners against big data governance, this article ...
Yingyao Wang
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Political Research ExchangeFocusing on the administrative examination of applications for Italian naturalisation, the article aims to understand how the ‘highly discretionary powers’ granted to the relevant office by law are exercised in practice.
Daniela Trucco
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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies [PDF]
Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self-selection and ...
Buurman, Margaretha, Dur, Robert
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Policy & Governance Review, 2019 This article concerns the efforts carried out by lower level bureaucrats in order to implement their decisions. Prior studies generally describe the decision of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as decisions that have already been implemented.
Deden Dani Saleh +3 more
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Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Appellate courts with discretionary dockets have multiple ways to review lower courts. We develop a formal model that evaluates the trade‐offs between “full review”—which features full briefing, oral arguments, and signed opinions—versus “quick review,” where a higher court can summarily reverse a lower court. We show that having the option of
Alexander V. Hirsch +2 more
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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