Do Programa Um Milhão de Cisternas ao Água para Todos: divergências políticas e bricolagem institucional na promoção do acesso à água no Semiárido brasileiro by Daniela Nogueira, Carolina Milhorance, Priscylla Mendes

“…In addition to the interest of analysing a process of programmatic change and dispute between state bureaucracies, including their patterns of alliances with social actors, the article discusses the challenges of policy formulation and implementation at the local level. …”
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Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works by Gans-Morse, J, Borges Martins da Silva, M, Makarin, A, Mannah Blankson, T, Nickow, A, Zhang, D

“…Drawing on the work of economists, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, we examine seven policy categories: (1) rewards and penalties; (2) monitoring; (3) restructuring bureaucracies; (4) screening and recruiting; (5) anti-corruption agencies; (6) educational campaigns; and (7) international agreements. …”

Impacts of Official Development Assistance on Government Fiscal Behavior in the Selected Asian Developing Countries by Sadegh Bakhtiari, Seyed Komail Tayebi, Hojjat Izadkhasti

“…While some researchers argue that such aid results into the growth of bureaucracies, others argue that it can lead to economic growth. …”
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China’s regional forum diplomacy in the developing world : socialisation and the ‘Sinosphere’ by Alden, Chris, Alves, Ana Cristina

“…This article examines Chinese-led regional forums in the developing world where the Chinese preponderance of economic power is self-evident, its financial largesse is readily utilised to sustain these endeavours, its bureaucracies are empowered to guide the conduct of institutional activities, and its normative intentions and interests are given fullest expression. …”
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The unaccountable Federal Accountability Act: Goodbye to responsible government? by S. L. Sutherland

“…Among these are measures to provide for heavy regulation and summary punishment of both parliamentarians and senior public servants, as well as for the “naming and blaming and shaming” of senior public servants at the cost of introducing a policy-administration dichotomy, plus the excessive grants of powers to agents or officers of Parliament and the creation of new “parliamentary” bureaucracies that in fact perform executive functions. …”
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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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More Knowledgeable Other(s) by Caroline B. Rabalais, Trevor Aleo, Dianne Wellington

“…However, hierarchies in academia can make these possibilities for collaboration scarce or difficult to break through for doctoral students, sustaining traditional hierarchies and bureaucracies of education. Digital platforms, though, can afford the possibility of subverting these divisions of social order in the academy and make room for different interlocutors to not only better access these MKOs but to also become an analogous MKO. …”
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Dizang and the Three Kings: Constructing Buddhist Hell by Imitating the Bureaucratic System in the Tang Dynasty by Xiao Jiang

“…There are several structural and functional parallels between the underworldly afterlife and the political bureaucracies of the world. The workings of the system in hell changed in texts from different periods, showing the evolution of the Three Departments system during the Tang Dynasty. …”
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Reevaluating Conventional Strategies: Harnessing Traditional Structures to Counter Violent Extremism in Pakistan by Sardar Jehanzaib Ghalib

“… Civil-military relations constitute a complex area of international relations through the interaction of military institutions, civil society, and other governmental bureaucracies. Civil-military relations investigate the dynamics of engagement between the military and the general public, as well as the obligation of society to scrutinize the foreign and military strategies of the government. …”
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Locating Forced Migrants’ Resources: Residency Status and the Process of Family Reunification in Finland by Johanna Hiitola

“…The results show that a variety of resources are needed to navigate the bureaucracies involved in family reunification. Economic resources in one’s country of origin may be used to pay the high administrative and travel costs, as well as other fees required by government officials to obtain visas for family members. …”
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Towards an inclusive pedagogy in South Africa by SIGAMONEY NAICKER

“…With the Neo-Liberal paradigm, working class children run the risk of remaining in the margins of society.  Modern day bureaucracies are victims of the performance culture that is promoted by the World Bank other supra national organisations.…”
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GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY by LANCE T. LELOUP

“…(6) Do antiquated bureaucracies and the lack of autonomy of universities handicap European universities in meeting global competition? …”
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Views from within the State: Brazilian public managers’ perceptions from 1993–2013 by Barbara Goulart

“…Moreover, this paper contributes to a broader discussion about government bureaucracies in the Global South, using Brazil as a valid example. …”
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Missing persons and infrastructures of search and identification by Laura Huttunen

“…Whatever the reason for disappearance, it disturbs the everyday flow of life in families and communities, and in many places, it creates anomalies for modern state bureaucracies. Unaccounted-for absences give rise to search practices, but the circumstances of search are radically different in different places and different contexts of disappearance. …”
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Political Economy of Reform for Service Delivery by Floribert Ngaruko

“…Finally, administrative decentralization may leverage effectively civil service reforms seeking to align central bureaucracies with the objective of poverty reduction through enhanced service delivery. …”
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Successes and challenges of a university-based agroecological community garden and educational program in Japan by Benjamin Schrager, Hiroki Ikeda, Takahashi Yukitsugu

“…We stress the importance of recognizing the contexts in which alternative agricultural initiatives emerge, and the reality that conflicts often arise because alternative agricultural goals differ from the goals of the markets, states, and bureaucracies in which they operate. …”
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Una mirada al Estado desde la educación en una comunidad shipibo-conibo by Giancarlo Rolando

“…El Estado se hace presente en la vida cotidiana de sus ciudadanos a través de las interacciones en que estos se envuelven con aquellos servidores públicos que pertenecen a lo que Michael Lipsky denomina Street-level bureaucracies, tales como policías o maestros de escuela. …”
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Not Only Economics: The Political Economy of Euro Adoption in Romania by Radu ŞIMANDAN, Beatrice LEUȘTEAN, Răzvan DOBRESCU

“…Under what circumstances may bureaucracies such as the central bank body of experts act as a deterrent for the political end that is the single currency adoption? …”
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On the Meaning of the PRC’s Development Since 1949 by Ernest G. Raiklin

“…China’s development from 1949 to present has taken several socioeconomic forms: 1949-1958, from a prevalent nonstate feudalism to a dominant state feudalism; 1960-1966, elements of mixed capitalism within state feudalism; 1966-1976, the split within the state capitalist and feudal bureaucracies; since 1978, authoritarian state capitalism. …”
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Epistemology of epidemiology: the case of Ungdata by Ida Hydle

“…The knowledge bases, epidemiological practices, technicalities, economic premises for the work and also data publishing is handled by social scientists at Norwegian Social Research, NOVA, located at Oslo Metropolitan University. State bureaucracies, e.g. ministries and directorates, municipalities etc. can ask for investigations and overviews. …”
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