@article{Marienfeldt2024,
  author    = {Marienfeldt, Justine},
  title     = {Does digital government hollow out the essence of street-level bureaucracy?},
  series = {Social policy \& administration},
  journal   = {Social policy \& administration},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0144-5596},
  doi       = {10.1111/spol.12991},
  pages     = {1 -- 25},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {The growing use of digital tools in policy implementation has altered the work of street-level bureaucrats who are granted substantial discretionary power in decision-making. Digital tools can constrain discretionary power, like the curtailment thesis proposed, or serve as action resources, like the enablement thesis suggested. This article assesses empirical evidence of the impact of digital tools on street-level work and decision-making in service-oriented and regulation-oriented organisations based on a systematic literature review and thematic qualitative content analysis of 36 empirical studies published until 2021. The findings demonstrate different effects with regard to the role of digital tools and the core tasks of the public administration, depending on political and managerial goals and consequent system design. Leading or decisive digital tools mostly curtail discretion, especially in service-oriented organisations. In contrast, an enhanced information base or recommendations for actions enable decision-making, in particular in regulation-oriented organisations. By showing how street-level bureaucrats actively try to resist the curtailing effects caused by rigid design to address individual circumstances, for instance by establishing ways of coping like rule bending or rule breaking, using personal resources or prioritising among clients, this study demonstrates the importance of the continuation thesis and the persistently crucial role of human judgement in policy implementation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Haenel2022,
  author    = {H{\"a}nel, Hilkje C.},
  title     = {Potentially disabled?},
  series = {Inquiry},
  journal   = {Inquiry},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0020-174X},
  doi       = {10.1080/0020174X.2022.2136753},
  pages     = {1 -- 26},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare illness called Myasthenia Gravis. Myasthenia Gravis is a long-term neuromuscular autoimmune disease where antibodies block or destroy specific receptors at the junction between nerve and muscle; hence, nerve impulses fail to trigger muscle contractions. The disease leads to varying degrees of muscle weakness. Currently, I have only minor symptoms, I am not seriously impaired, and I do not suffer from any social disadvantage because of my illness. Yet, my life and my body since my diagnosis feel different than before. In this paper I aim to make this feeling intelligible and propose that it is a state of what I call 'latent impairment'. Latent impairment is a state of being 'in between', different from being actually impaired and also different from being abled-bodied. The theory takes its cues both from social constructionist theories of disability as well as theories of (chronic) illness and their focus on the importance of subjectivity. Furthermore, I suggest that a phenomenological understanding of latent impairment can show possible ways of becoming an ally to the DRM.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Wegmann2023,
  author    = {Wegmann, Simone},
  title     = {Sven Siefken und Hilmar Rommetvedt (Hrsg.). 2021. Parliamentary committees in the policy process},
  series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r vergleichende Politikwissenschaft},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r vergleichende Politikwissenschaft},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {VS Verl. f{\"u}r Sozialwissenschaften},
  address   = {Wiesbaden},
  issn      = {1865-2654},
  doi       = {10.1007/s12286-022-00553-5},
  pages     = {769 -- 772},
  year      = {2023},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WolfMackert2020,
  author    = {Wolf, Hannah and Mackert, J{\"u}rgen},
  title     = {Introduction},
  series = {Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis},
  journal   = {Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {978-0-429-26228-9},
  pages     = {1 -- 14},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {The processes of neo-liberalisation, coined as 'actually existing neo-liberalism' are by their very nature variegated and context-specific and can appear in multi-faceted and contradictory forms. Consequentially, sociological reflection has tried to conceptualise ongoing processes of transforming the city under the concept of urban neo-liberalism which is generally understood as the contextually specific and path-dependent realisation of neo-liberal restructuration projects, embedded in varying social, political, economic, and cultural 'regulatory landscapes'. As much as neo-liberalism as ideology and political programme aims at erasing any democratic participation in society, its proponents have taken sides pushing ahead the re-conceptualisation of the city as a market with the right of the stronger 'to do down the weaker'. The city has become a focal point for neo-liberalism's war against democracy and citizens. Turning social relations into market transactions in order to restructure cities is not a new idea from the neo-liberals but one of the non-negotiable dogmas of their religion called science.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Haenel2021,
  author    = {H{\"a}nel, Hilkje C.},
  title     = {The intricacies of ideology and ignorance},
  series = {Social epistemology review \& reply collective : SERRC},
  volume    = {10},
  journal   = {Social epistemology review \& reply collective : SERRC},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Social epistemology review \& reply collective},
  address   = {[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]},
  issn      = {2471-9560},
  pages     = {58 -- 62},
  year      = {2021},
  language  = {en}
}