Street-level Bureaucrats’ Coping Strategies and How They Affect Public Service Delivery in Ghana
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Street foods in Accra, Ghana: how safe are they?
OBJECTIVE To investigate the microbial quality of foods sold on streets of Accra and factors predisposing to their contamination. METHODS Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 117 street vendors on their vital statistics, personal hygiene, food hygiene and knowledge of foodborne illness. Standard methods were used for the enumeration, isolation, and identification of bacter...
متن کاملDoes Race Affect Access to Government Services?: An Experiment Exploring Street-Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing
While experimental studies of local election officials have found evidence of racial discrimination, we know little about whether these biases manifest in bureaucracies that provide access to valuable government programs and are less tied to politics. We address these issues in the context of affordable housing programs using a randomized field experiment. We explore responsiveness to putative ...
متن کاملStreet-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation: Implementing Special-Education Reform
Recent state and federal legislation holds the promise of sweeping reform in special-education practices. In this article, Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky examine the implementation of Chapter 766, the dramatically innovative state special-education law in Massachusetts. They show how the necessary coping mechanisms that individual school personnel use to manage the demands of their jobs ...
متن کاملThe disappearing state surpluses: how come, how long, and how will they affect social service programs?
This issue brief focuses on the impact of recent budget shortfalls that many states are experiencing after several years of strong revenue growth. It describes the structure and sources of state revenues and spending and the causes of the recent shortfall. It also summarizes the fiscal trends and federal policies that could result in significant budget shortfalls in the future. Speakers at the ...
متن کاملBureaucrats and Public Procurement
This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual realizations of benefit and costs of the project, the second game to be played afterward. In the first game the relationship-specific investments of agency and sel...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0971-8923,2456-6756
DOI: 10.31901/24566756.2019/60.1-3.2244