Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats
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DOI: 10.1002/pad.70049
Abstract: How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority… read more here.
Keywords: street level; level bureaucrats; representation; minority ... See more keywords
The Permission to be Cruel: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Harms Against People Seeking Asylum
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DOI: 10.1007/s10612-020-09515-3
Abstract: Immigration and asylum policies and practices in Britain have turned increasingly hostile. People seeking asylum are exposed to a panoply of control measures and rendered vulnerable. The state has exteriorized its controls and drawn-in various… read more here.
Keywords: people seeking; seeking asylum; level bureaucrats; street level ... See more keywords
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats
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DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09570-z
Abstract: The production of state legibility has been a prolific subject of study. However, most works have not paid much attention to the quotidian labor of the street-level bureaucrats that implement legibility projects at a local… read more here.
Keywords: street level; legibility; level; level bureaucrats ... See more keywords
‘Downtown Is for People’: The street-level approach in Jane Jacobs' legacy and its resonance in the planning debate within the complexity theory of cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.12.023
Abstract: Abstract Jane Jacobs suggested that ‘just and diverse streets’ reflect the functioning of the city as ‘a problem of organised complexity’. The topic has recently been at the centre of the debate on her work.… read more here.
Keywords: debate; theory; jane jacobs; street level ... See more keywords
Determining the effective dose of street-level heroin: A new way to consider fluctuations in heroin purity, mass and potential contribution to overdose.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.07.009
Abstract: BACKGROUND & AIMS Heroin use is associated with a disproportionately high level of morbidity and mortality with most deaths attributable to drug overdose. Aggregate heroin purity data has been used to examine the relationship between… read more here.
Keywords: heroin; mass; purity; effective dose ... See more keywords
Exploring the Responsibilities of Street-Level Bureaucrats through the Perspectives of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth and Their Sponsors
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1672730
Abstract: ABSTRACT Between 2014 and 2019, more than 300,000 unaccompanied youth arrived at U.S.-Mexico border. Responsible for the implementation of immigration policy, street-level bureaucrats regularly interact with many of these youth as they navigate the immigration… read more here.
Keywords: level bureaucrats; unaccompanied minors; immigration; youth ... See more keywords
Digital first Universal Credit and street-level discretion within screen-level implementation: staff, claimant and stakeholder perspectives
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DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2025.2530876
Abstract: ABSTRACT The implementation of social security in rich nations involves a move away from ‘street-level bureaucracy’ towards ‘screen-level’ interfaces. The UK was at the forefront of innovation with the ‘digital first’ delivery of Universal Credit… read more here.
Keywords: street level; discretion; screen level; staff ... See more keywords
Clients’ Help Deservingness, Crowd Situational Stress And Discretionary Decision-making: An Experimental Study Of Regulatory Street-level Bureaucrats In China
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DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2019.1661892
Abstract: ABSTRACT: Following the publication of Lipsky’s classic study, a large body of literature has explored the determinants of street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. Among these determinants, clients’ help deservingness has been widely studied as a salient factor… read more here.
Keywords: situational stress; clients help; level bureaucrats; study ... See more keywords
Discretion and the values of fractal man. An anthropologist’s perspective on ‘Street-level bureaucracy’
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DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2018.1553150
Abstract: ABSTRACT Michael Lipsky’s seminal book entitled ‘Street-level Bureaucracy’ has long been a core citation for a social work scholarship concerned with practice. This article takes issue with a key notion in Lipsky’s book, that of… read more here.
Keywords: level bureaucracy; street level; notion; discretion ... See more keywords
Street Level Bureaucrats and Post-conflict Policy-making: Corruption, Correctives, and the Rise of Veterans’ Pensions in Timor-Leste
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DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1477270
Abstract: ABSTRACT Much has been made of the ‘imperial’ influence of international actors (Chopra 2000) and their view of Timor-Leste as a petri dish for post-conflict development. However, this view obscures the ways in which conflict-era… read more here.
Keywords: bureaucrats post; level bureaucrats; conflict; post conflict ... See more keywords
Asylum Adjudication and Street-Level Discretion: Negotiating Practice Rules
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DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2024.2304832
Abstract: Abstract Studying asylum adjudication in Switzerland, this article investigates how front-line practitioners in street-level organizations (SLOs) effectively exercise collective rulemaking power when they engage in construction of procedural rules, known as “asylum practice” rules. Asylum… read more here.
Keywords: street level; discretion; practice; asylum adjudication ... See more keywords