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ppa905005_supplemental_appendix - Supplemental material for The (un)intended effects of street-level bureaucrats’ enforcement style: Do citizens shame or obey bureaucrats?

, 2020
Supplemental material, ppa905005_supplemental_appendix for The (un)intended effects of street-level bureaucrats’ enforcement style: Do citizens shame or obey bureaucrats?
Noortje de Boer (8505066)
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Rebelliousness and street-level bureaucrats’ discretion: evidence from Malaysia / Mohammed Salah Hassan … [et al.] [PDF]

, 2021
Street-level bureaucrats are a fundamental part of the implementation process of any policy. This study provides an examination of the factors that shape the behavior of street-level bureaucrats at the frontlines of policy implementation.
Raja Ariffin, Raja Noriza, Hassan, Mohammed Salah, Mansor, Norma, Al Halbusi, Hussam   +3 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age

Big Data & Society
This 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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EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
wiley   +1 more source

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

The 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

Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city

Critical Public Health
In the name of public health protection, individuals and communities perceived to be diseased have long been coercively regulated through surveillance, sequestration, or various forms of criminal punishment. In the U.S., people experiencing homelessness (
Lesley Jo Weaver, Claire W. Herbert, Dylan J. Podrabsky, Mackenzie L. Ní Flainn   +3 more
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Street-level Bureaucrats, Administrative Power and the Manipulation of Federal Social Security Disability Programs

, 2001
The implementation of federal programs provides an opportunity for state officials to impose their own interests on the policy process. The federal government delegates administrative power to the states to implement federal programs.
Lael R. Keiser
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The 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

Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment

Research & Politics
Do female public servants receive a stronger negative public reaction from being involved in corruption than their male counterparts? While there are good theoretical reasons to suggest they do, the empirical evidence on this question to date, which ...
Miguel Carreras, Sofia Vera, Giancarlo Visconti   +2 more
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