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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Street-level Bureaucracy"”.
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Legal services lawyers encounter clients : a study in street level bureaucracy.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
… is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ work often involves operationalising health, education and social services at the street-level, …
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Experience of World Vision India fieldworkers – role and discretion at the interface of organisation and communities
… with community members and local partners. Using Street-Level Bureaucracy by Lipsky (1980), this research examined the tensions experienced by NGO fieldworkers, discretion they exercised and the coping mechanisms they put in place in responding to such tensions in their work. The overall research …
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Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment
… disability benefits exist alongside very high levels of unemployment and poverty. It focuses on the role of doctors, who must confirm that applicants for the DG are disabled, serving as gatekeepers, and thus as 'street level bureaucrats' within the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). …
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Local government coordination capacity in reducing stunting prevalence : cases of Bekasi city and Bogor city
… This research concludes a strong capacity of street-level bureaucracy coordination was the core of Bekasi City’s better performance in stunting reduction compared to Bogor City. Therefore, understanding the need for a strong coordination capacity in bureaucracy and the impact of not having it …
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Developing individualized education programs with culturally and linguistically diverse families from low-income homes : a heuristic inquiry of special education teachers
… Deductively exploring themes using Lipsky's street-level bureaucracy framework exposed challenges special education teachers in this study had addressing both legal and workplace expectations, such as meeting IDEA 2004 mandates. With a systems theory approach, themes and subthemes were …
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Challenging Notions of the Ideal Victim: Identifying and Stereotyping Human Trafficking in the Midwest
… informed by critical trafficking studies and street-level bureaucracy theory, I begin with an exploration of the various definitions frontline workers use to make meaning of their clients’ experiences with sex and labor trafficking. Next, I move to an analysis of the role of the carceral state …
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Cultivating Professional Meaning and Commitment: Frontline Nurses' Narratives about Peer Support
… This study draws together scholarship on street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) and formal and informal training in nursing to build on research demonstrating that internal organizational elements such as formal training and informal peer interaction continuously develop SLBs' professional and …
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Investigating the role of Human Resource Development (HRD) policy formulation, implementation and regulation of academic staff in two case study Nigerian Polytechnic institutions
… Van Horn,1975) supplemented by Lipsky’s (2010) street-level bureaucracy to penetrate issues and challenges, debates and current concerns posed in critical areas of HRD policy implementation for academic staff. The researcher contends that applying Van Horn and Van Meter’s theory of Policy …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… ‘bottom-up’ conceptualisation of agency whereby street-level bureaucracy (Brodkin 2013); everyday resistance (Scott 1985; de Certeau 1984); lines of Flight (Deleuze 1995) and refusal of work (Tronti 1966a) are situated within Lister’s (2004) typology of agency. In this way the research …
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Watering the slums : how a utility and its street-level bureaucrats connected the poor in Bangalore
… research corrects for this bias by applying a "street-level bureaucracy" approach to a study of a large urban water utility. The aim is to quash the notion so common in the water literature of a unified agency operating on the supply side and to rekindle an interest in the actions of workers. To …
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Fairness in Dispute: Understanding the Principles of Equity, Equality, and Reciprocity in Federal Procurement Contracting
… research design at macro, mezzo, and micro levels that used a blend of descriptive analysis, computational text analysis, and qualitative thematic analysis to explore a little-studied operational domain within public administration. This investigative approach made possible an examination of …
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Nursing on the edge: nursing identity in liminal spaces
… on theories of liminality and Michael Lipsky’s Street Level Bureaucracy, the statement proposes innovative approaches to raising the profile of nursing, beyond a liminal position. The public works are produced from liminal spaces in clinical practice to the liminal space occupied by nursing in …
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“One Cannot Leave It Undecided”: On the Dynamic Production of Scoring Decisions in the School Inspection Process
… are analysed with theoretical approaches such as street-level bureaucracy and the analysis of official documents. Two contrasting school inspection systems were included – the German states Lower Saxony and Thuringia. In each system, three school inspection teams were shadowed during their on-site …
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Exploring the Interpretation and Implementation of Migrant Programs: A Migrant Director’s Perspective
… design. Informed by Michael Lipsky’s theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy (SLB), the study explores how Migrant Directors interpret and implement Migrant policies, navigating the complexities of policy adherence while addressing student needs. The research includes 61 survey participants and 27 …
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"Problem families" and the post-war welfare state in the North West of England, 1943-74
… is undertaken on three interconnected levels. Firstly, the personal encounter between the family and the official, considering the role of professional, ideological and local discourses in singling out families for intervention. Secondly, the role of the local authority and council in …
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OMBUDS AND TITLE IX COORDINATORS: PROCEDURAL CONVERGENCE OF UNIVERSITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS FOR HANDLING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
… non-law ordering, neo-institutional norms, and street-level bureaucracy, this dissertation proposes a theory of procedural convergence to understand the evolution of these two offices. The theory of procedural convergence posits that organizational processes are shaped by both law-like norms …
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The Impact of Accountability and Accountability Management on Performance at the Street Level
Performance management is prevalent in public organizations and public services, but the push for performance may harm genuine accountability. One critical reason for this is that little knowledge has developed about the scope and effect of actual accountability requirements in the public …
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The ways in which new public management ideas impact upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals working within Irish social policy
… impacted upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals within Irish social policy. Lipsky (1980: 3) defined 'street-level' bureaucrats as ‘public service workers who interact directly with citizens in the course of their jobs, and who have substantial …
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
In the Global South, the expansion of non-discretionary benefits, such as cash transfers, has intensified the need for states to produce systematic knowledge about the poor. Whether for exclusion or inclusion in welfare protection, states collect, standardize, and codify data to exert greater …
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