Diplomacy as an Independent Variable by Dawisson Belém Lopes

“…This offered me the chance to interview this scholarly, polite, and sober character with an impressive career within both domestic and global bureaucracies. It is difficult not to be charmed by his personality. …”
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Crawling up the value chain: domestic institutions and non-traditional foreign direct investment in Brazil, 1990-2010 by PATRICK J. W. EGAN

“…Adopting an institutionalist perspective, I argue that multinational firm investment profiles can be partly explained by the characteristics of investment promotion policies and bureaucracies charged with their implementation. Brazil's FDI policies were passive and non-discriminating in the second half of the 1990s, but became more selective under Lula. …”
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Educating and Leading for World Citizenship by Lejf Moos

“…On one hand, society as a civilisation is producing an outcome-based discourse with a focus on marketplaces, governance, bureaucracies and accountability. On the other hand, society focuses on cul-ture through arts, language, history, relations and communication, producing a democratic Bildung dis-course. …”
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Alcance y limitaciones de las consultorías en materia de seguridad pública y derechos humanos: es posible resistir a las generalizaciones y a los productos estandarizados?: relato... by Pita, María Victoria, Miranda, Ana Paula Mendes de

“…In this paper we want to discuss about consultancy services that against the standardized models are able to produce reflections about state bureaucracies and the design of public policies as well as information and knowledge on the subject of citizen security and human rights…”
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Introductory guide to the internet for Nanyang Business School. by Kao, Grace Sze Jwen., Fok, Michelle Mui Shang., Tang, Shao Yen.

“…Until now, growth in the region has been restricted by underdeveloped telecommunications infrastructure and bureaucracies that have little concept of the technologies that they are trying to regulate.…”
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Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022) by Trajber Waisbich, L

“…It argues that the growing international embeddedness of Brazilian policies, including through policy transfer and technical cooperation initiatives mostly with other developing countries, has provided domestic sectoral bureaucracies and policy communities with additional strategic discursive and argumentative resources to mobilise, respond and try to resist policy dismantling at home.…”

A experiência da Implementação da Gestão Orientada para os Resultados em Portugal by Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves de Araújo

“…The literature on reform administrative states that the institutional bureaucracies resist change, particularly when it challenges the practices and procedures in place. …”
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The man, his politics and intellectual origins: a short biography of Mike Adler by Mulcahy, L

“…It charts his family background, education and motivation for his life-long interest in street-level bureaucracies, justice and the welfare state; placing a particular emphasis on his tireless activism, engagement with the world around him and dogged refusal to ignore unfairness and discrimination. …”

Government lawyers: technicians, policy shapers and organisational brakes by Lewis, PSC, Mulcahy, L

“…By looking at lawyers in bureaucracies the interviews conducted revealed much about the work that government lawyers do, their relationship with other civil servants and the subtle influences on policy that they are able to exert. …”

Trust-mistrust in European Democracies by Mattei Dogan

“…An important proportion of citizens do not manifest confidence in many basic institutions (parliaments, parties, unions, army, public bureaucracies, big business, courts, ecclesiastic hierarchy, police) nor in the political class. …”
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Modernizar y democratizar la Administración Pública. Una mirada desde la realidad latinoamericana by Carolina Isaza, Ma. Cecilia Güemes, Guillermo Fuentes

“…Recognizing the diversity of the region, it exposes the common weaknesses of its bureaucracies. We propose to take back in the political dimension of administrative reform and its necessary insertion in the debate about State and citizenship. …”
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Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings by Khan, Adnan Q., Khwaja, Asim Ijaz, Olken, Benjamin

“…Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. …”
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Transparency, recruitment and retention in the public sector by Leaver, C, Albano, G, Else

“…This paper argues that government should pay greater heed to recruitment and retention when designing performance measurement systems for bureaucracies. In the face of pervasive rigidities in public sector pay, internal performance measurement rewards quitters and scars stayers and therefore makes it difficult to recruit and retain. …”

Transparency, Recruitment and Retention in the Public Sector. by Albano, G, Leaver, C

“…This paper argues that governments should pay greater heed to recruitment and retention when designing performance measurement systems for bureaucracies. In the face of pervasive rigidities in public sector pay, internal performance measurement rewards quitters and scars stayers and therefore makes it difficult to recruit and retain. …”

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION / by Brown, John Seely, author 396149, Duguid, Paul, 1954-, author 513333

“…Pundits predicted that information technology would obliterate the need for almost everything--from mass media to bureaucracies, universities, politics, and governments. …”

“Ellas Hacen”. Social programs and requirements to women in Argentina by Angeles Bermudez, Pilar Arcidiácono

“…This work will study tensions within the design of the policy extended over time, with redefinitions linked to the margins granted to bureaucracies. Furthermore, the difference between developing policies "for women" and mainstreamed by a gender perspective; and what is offered and demanded from women both in the approach to problems of violence and care will be discussed.…”
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“Crying Doesn’t Work”: Emotion and Parental Involvement of Working Class Mothers Raising Children with Developmental Disabilities by Amy Christine Sousa

“…These women describe carefully planned parenting practices designed to foster child development, which yield both engagement with and strategic disengagement from formal bureaucracies. This is a decided departure from previous theorization on low income mothers' approaches to child development. …”
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Digital Village Construction: A Multi-Level Governance Approach to Enhance Agroecological Efficiency by Jin Ren, Xinrui Chen, Lefeng Shi, Ping Liu, Zhixiong Tan

“…This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of China’s digital village construction, emphasizing its role in rural organizational governance, from bureaucracies to self-governance bodies to market forces and social organizations. …”
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Leading and Organising Education for Citizenship of the World by Lejf Moos, Elisabet Nihlfors, Jan Merok Paulsen

“…On the one hand, society produces a discourse based on outcomes, with a focus on the marketplace, governance, bureaucracies, account-ability and technocratic homogenisation. …”
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Structural model of the application of anti-corruption values to local government bureaucrats by Hari Wahyono, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya

“…This study examines economic factors influencing the intention to apply anti-corruption values among local government bureaucracies, covering efficiency in consumption behavior, productive behavior, and subjective well-being. …”
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