Slow, Subjective and Stressful: A Guide to Canada's Asylum System by Robert Falconer

“…It is also the result of evolving bureaucracies and case management systems impacted by political agendas and sudden surges in asylum seeker numbers. …”
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Interdisciplinary Promises and Hierarchical Ambiguities in a Danish Hospital Context by Anette Lykke Hindhede, Vibeke Andersen

“…Through qualitative interviews with hospital management, middle managers, and staff employees at three hospitals in Denmark, we demonstrate how managerial attempts to control tenacious profes-sional bureaucracies are exercised through both bureaucratic forms of control and cultural-ideological modes of control with an introduction of new discourses of in-terprofessional teamwork. …”
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Revisiting the Policy Field Through the Lens of Mexican Scholars by Carlos Moreno Jaimes

“…Finally, social inequality influences Mexico’s policymaking by demobilizing social sectors that could act in favor of the poor, preventing governments from enforcing the law, or letting street-level bureaucracies apply selective enforcement criteria in discretionary ways. …”
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Ethics of Administration – Towards Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

“…As such I would argue that a book about ethics of administration should deal with ethical theories and principles and dilemmas of public administration in public organizations and institutions, i.e. state, regional and municipal administrations and bureaucracies, including ethical dimensions of the work of courts, police and military. …”
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Innovation, voice, and hierarchy in the public sector: Evidence from Ghana's civil service by Williams, M, Yecalo-Tecle, L

“…Research on innovation in government often focuses on ideas introduced by senior leaders or managers, but ideas from public servants themselves are an important and underexplored channel for improving performance in government bureaucracies. We provide new evidence on the potential for bottom‐up work process innovation, using data from 744 individual and team innovation plans and 51 qualitative interviews in Ghana's civil service. …”

Welfare reform shines a light on work-force development challenges by David Campbell

“…Through more than 200 interviews and an extensive literature review, we have found that welfare reform is succeeding in reducing caseloads and reinventing local social-service bureaucracies. But these changes must be joined with long-term job creation and work-force development strategies if they are to truly reduce poverty. …”
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Coopting the State: The Conservative Evangelical Movement and State-Level Institutionalization, Passage, and Diffusion of Faith-Based Initiatives by Rebecca Sager, Keith Bentele

“…Examining multiple institutional and legislative outcomes related to the Faith Based Initiative, we seek to understand why some states have established state faith-based bureaucracies and passed significantly more faith-based legislation. …”
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From Punched Cards to "Big Data": A Social History of Database Populism by Kevin Driscoll

“…Census, mass-scale information processing has been alternately a site of opportunity, ambivalence and fear in the American imagination. While large bureaucracies have tended to deploy database technology toward purposes of surveillance and control, the rise of personal computing made databases accessible to individuals and small businesses for the first time. …”
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Democratic Decentralization and Participatory Development: Focus on Bangladesh by Pronita Dutta

“…Proponents claim the new approach can humanize bureaucracies and provide solutions to problems of poverty and social inequity. …”
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Sharing intelligence culture by Lawrence Cline

“…Using case studies of environments in which established intelligence services have worked with emergent intelligence agencies, this paper examines the requirements for incorporating both larger cultural approaches and detailed knowledge of other intelligence bureaucracies. Received: 2021-12-14 Revised: 2022-03-14 …”
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Shifting the deckchairs: how blame avoiders cope with the loss of a scapegoat by Cooper, C, Elston, T, Bilous, A

“…Scholars regard the delegation of contentious or failure-prone tasks to semi-autonomous bureaucracies (or ‘quangos’), and salient examples of officials in these organizations ‘taking the flack’ for ministers, as proof of the so-called ‘agency strategy’ of blame management. …”

Exploring Regional Development of Digital Humanities Research: A Case Study for Taiwan by Kuang-hua Chen, Bi-Shin Hsueh

“…Preliminary results showed historical materials, events, bureaucracies, and people of Taiwan and China in the Qing Dynasty were the major subjects in the tempo-spatial dimensions. …”
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Transnational Kinship Ties and Welfare State Resistance by Petri Hautaniemi

“…The speakers in this debate more often seem to represent the social policy  rofessions, state bureaucracies and legal expertise.   European immigration politics generally are illustrative. …”
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Re-Designing Open Data 2.0 by Alon Peled

“…Numerous countries followed the path of the original American Open Data program; therefore, the future of this program will have an impact on bureaucracies worldwide.…”
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En quarantaine pendant la guerre froide : Norbert Wollheim et la détention sur Ellis Island by Jan Lambertz

“…Immigration bureaucracies have long maintained special territories, sometimes detaining newcomers for months and even years. …”
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Ideas and Impact: Continuity, Change and Constraints in the Institutional Landscape of Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Trinidad and Tobago by Genève Phillip-Durham

“…In the context of Caribbean small island jurisdictions, a picture has customarily been painted of bloated bureaucracies, the prevalence of state institutions in the mechanics of governance, institutional weakness and a lack of institutional innovation. …”
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Integrative Nursing: Application of Principles Across Clinical Settings by Mary Jo Kreitzer

“…Nursing shortages in many parts of the world are significant, and hierarchies and bureaucracies often remove nurses from the point of care, be that the bedside, home, or clinic, replacing them with less skilled workers and filling their time with documentation and other administrative tasks. …”
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Territoriality and the rise of modern state by Jouni Häkli

“…The idea of social construction of space together with constructivist epistemology is presented as a constructivist conception of space. Bureaucracies emerge with the introduction of writing as a means of coordinating objects, people and events into a co-synchronous event-universe. …”
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Implementing global citizenship education in EU primary schools: The role of government ministries

“…We argue that the gap between the two traditions, with separate approaches, purposes, concepts and bureaucracies, represents a strategic political challenge for the introduction of global citizenship education in primary schools. …”
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Poverty in South Africa: Drivers of Perpetuation by Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Adewale Adisa Olutola

“…It also recommends commitment through good values demonstrated by the political class, bureaucracies, and the citizens. …”
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