Table of contents - Special Issue: Street-Level Bureaucracy theory meets different Souths
Guest Editors: Daniela Leonardi, Rebecca Paraciani, Dario Raspanti
Street-level netocracy: rules, discretion and professionalism in a network-based intervention
Barbara Da Roit, Maurizio BusaccaThe paper aims to analyse the meaning and extension of discretionary power of social service professionals within network-based interventions.
Changing context, changing work? Comparing rural and urban contexts in social services provision in Italy
Susanna PagiottiThe study compares the social services functioning in two local contexts, one urban and one rural, in the same Italian region, to understand how contextual features affect…
Refer rather than treat: coping with uncertainty in municipal primary care clinics in India
Radhika GoreThe institutional conditions of primary care provision remain understudied in low- and middle-income countries. This study analyzes how primary care doctors cope with medical…
Institutional and organisational influence on mental health management in Spanish and Italian primary care
Roberto GiosaThis study aims to investigate how institutional and organisational factors affect case management of patients with mental disorders by GPs in Italy and Spain. The paper…
Street-level bureaucrats in the professional context of primary care social services in Spain
Sergio Sánchez-CastiñeiraThis study aims to identify the street-level approaches of professional workers in complex public social service organisations when attending to social assistance claimants.
Protecting vulnerability. An international comparison of social workers as street-level bureaucrats during the COVID-19 lockdown
Lluis Francesc Peris Cancio, Maria Alexandra Monteiro MustafáThe purpose of this article’s research was threefold. Firstly, it aimed to investigate how social services professionals coped during the pandemic period by comparing their…
Street-level quasi-bureaucracy and professional discretion: how transformational leadership and public service motivation influence village health volunteers' professional discretion
Achakorn Wongpreedee, Tatchalerm SudhipongprachaVillage health volunteers are community health volunteers in Thailand that have helped the government deliver public health services for many years, particularly during the…
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- Prof Colin Williams