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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Street-level bureaucrats"”.
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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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Resilience thinking and the influence of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of EU environmental policies in overseas territories: lessons from Gibraltar.
… affect the achievement of policy goals and how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) involved in policy implementation utilise coping mechanisms to overcome shortages in resources, expertise and other local constraints. However, it has struggled to provide a systematic analysis of how contextual …
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From national development to local delivery: how neighbourhood policing policy and guidance has informed the understanding of communities and engagement practice at a local level
… as well as Lipsky’s (2010) theory of street level bureaucrats. The findings of this research show that these underpinning theories and concepts were present throughout the policy journey, along with Tepstra & Fyfe’s (2015) identification of the ‘implementation gap’ also evident. Policy …
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Local government authority strategizing : a middle management perspective
… on the frontline led to another phenomenon – street-level bureaucrats and the politicization of the community. These frontline service deliverers, ‘street-level bureaucrats’, not only interpreted the strategy to fit the specific, unique context of each neighbourhood but also educated the …
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Nurses decision-making in termination of pregnancy services at health care facilities in the Western Cape
Using the theory of "street-level bureaucrats" , this thesis examines the implementation of the South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act by exploring nurses' decision-making in termination of pregnancy services. As front-line providers, nurses play a critical role in the implementation …
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Refugees as planners : Palestinian refugees in Jordan and UNRWA, 1950-1957
… included top administration staff as well as street-level bureaucrats. Other refugees participated also in the planning process through spontaneous uprisings, forming local action groups, networking, and building alliances.
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The Self-Sufficiency Ideology: The Bureaucratic Constraints on Manager Identity that Shape Manager Perceptions of the Welfare-to-Work Program in North Carolina.
… agency standards, similar to Lipsky’s (1980) street-level bureaucrats. I find that manager identities coincide with perceptions of challenges and barriers in relation to clients’ inability to achieve self-sufficiency and with the changes that managers would make to the program in North …
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The Phenomenological Evaluation of Teaching Professionalism in the Architecture Design Culture: A Case at The University of Kansas
… frameworks are advanced, using different levels of data analysis in ATLAS and several metaphors to illuminate collective experiences of instructors teaching in the studio context. The examined teaching practice of studio instructors is as an indicator of their professional development, …
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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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Managing value conflicts : an examination of values and value conflicts in third sector organisations in Scotland
… hybridity, institutional logics and street-level bureaucrats help to frame the specific context and understand how value conflicts are managed. This thesis found that conflicts revolved around the competing values of ‘client-focus’ versus ‘business-orientated’ approaches, although …
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Equity in healthcare: Stakeholder perceptions on the implementation of the Community-Based Health Insurance scheme in Ethiopia
… by investigating the role of health workers, as street level bureaucrats, in the day-to-day delivery of the scheme. It also contextualises findings through the theoretical lenses of patient-centredness, the five dimensions of access, and the notions of gender-based power dynamics. This study …
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Intermediaries of the state : bureaucratic transaction costs of claiming welfare in Mexico
… access to benefits Intermediaries range from street-level bureaucrats or social workers to political bosses, brokers or caciques However, in institutionally weak contexts, intermediaries will often demand political loyalty in return for their assistance, a practice better known as clientelism …
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Sjukskrivningssystemet : Sjuka som blir arbetslösa och arbetslösa som blir sjukskrivna
… question has led to two other questions; “How do street level bureaucrats at the employment agency and the social insurance agency carry out their work to return the unemployed ill back to work?” and; “How do the unemployed ill convey their intention of returning to work?” The main question and …
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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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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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Three Essays on Demand-side Health Policies in India
… a border discontinuity design. I compare the levels of health-seeking behaviors among births in villages along the borders of districts that received the program with those across the border in districts that did not receive the program. I do not find any large significant differences in …
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Colorism and Local Policing: Setting the Foundation for More Expansive Research on Racial Discrimination at the Local Level
… of biased behaviors that originate at the street-level, and these patterns have the propensity to impact every aspect of CJ. Colorism could serve as a more comprehensive approach to addressing racial bias. Colorism is a system of disadvantage and privilege based on skin color, with a bias …
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Evaluation of Public Policy Implementation: an Investigation into the National Training Programme at the Ministry of Manpower in the Sultanate of Oman
This study analyses the macro and micro levels of policy implementation in Oman, and draws together the worlds of policy-makers and ‘street-level bureaucrats’. It evaluates the implementation policy of the National Training Programme, along with its associated concepts, and investigates the …
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