Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices

Bjerge, Bagga; Eule, Tobias Georg; Elmholdt, Kasper Trolle

doi:10.7146/qs.v5i2.111314

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“…Indeed, the results of this study stress the continuity of New Public Managementstyle reforms in times of austerity (Patrick 2017, see also Koch and James, this issue) in what Streeck (2017) has called a tradition of welfare state upheaval from Thatcher to Blair to Merkel. As is the case with other welfare regimes, this study finds major shifts in the provision of advice that challenge existing traditions, creating challenges and potential pitfalls for the advice communities (confirming the findings of James & Killick 2012; see also Borland 2015;Bjerge et al 2018), but also opening up chances for new forms of advocacy. In response to these changes, some agencies seem to move closer to the state, focussing on greater collaboration and more direct lobbying, as in the case of the UK debt advice sector (Davey, this issue).…”

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Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Eule

2020

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Refugees often find themselves in precarious situations when trying to claim asylum. This paper examines the changing nature of legal advice in Switzerland, where a new law is drastically altering the asylum regime to a more centralised and tightly managed procedure. This reform directly affects the refugee advice community, which sees an increase in state funding opportunities paired with a higher demand for quality standards and 'managerial' practices. These changes reveal frictions between advice organisations and challenge long-standing agreements and collaborations. (Re-)emerging fault lines concern whether to collaborate with or oppose the Swiss asylum regimes, and whether to assist with asylum appeals with low chances of success. Structurally and individually, pre-existing notions of 'good advice' are being challenged and threaten to divide the advice community into political advocates and pragmatic caseworkers. The changing nature of advice thus brings with it both pitfalls and new opportunities that require careful examination.

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Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Eule

2020

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“…Taking a "qualitative stance" when examining public administration processes and uncovering the "discursive and material elements" of public sector services is important for generating knowledge (Bjerge, et al, 2018, p. 51). Heeding the observation of Bjerge, et al (2018), this article presents the results of a qualitative study of provincial government policy capacity in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI).…”

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Governmental policy capacity and policy work in a small place: Reflections on perceptions of civil servants in Prince Edward Island, Canada from a practitioner in the field

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2020

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The body of public administration literature is missing contributions from practitioners in the field. Emic or insider-led studies of public administration can act as powerful mechanisms to generate new knowledge. This article studies the relationship between place, perceptions and policy work by drawing on the author’s own public administration experience and interviews with civil servants. The results show that societal factors such as political culture and reduced anonymity associated with small place create challenges when developing public policy. However, expedited public engagement and problem identification were perceived by civil servants to be enhanced by a small context. This means that small place can be both limiting and beneficial for high levels of policy capacity. Overall, this article finds that geospatial factors such as smallness impact perceptions of policy work and capacity. Furthermore, this article finds that insider-led studies of public administration can indeed make important and unique contributions to the body of literature and are therefore deserving of more serious methodological consideration.

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Claim and Blame: How Welfare Law institutionalises Deservingness

Eule

2023

Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights

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This chapter argues that deservingness conceptualisations play a key part in rationalising welfare law, as they justify who can reasonably claim benefits and who is not eligible, and to blame for their own plight. Crucially, these deservingness conceptualisations are not just inventions of recent welfare conditionality programs that distinguish between activated, self-responsible and hesitant, punishable claimants, but have been part and parcel of all forms of welfare provisions. The chapter argues that acknowledging this and analysing how these conceptualisations have been institutionalised in welfare systems improve implementation studies. Thus, rather than comparing new and conditional social law in clash with existing ‘organisational culture’, we should compare the different deservingness conceptualisations of laws old and new and examine their different institutionalisation potentials.

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Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Governmental policy capacity and policy work in a small place: Reflections on perceptions of civil servants in Prince Edward Island, Canada from a practitioner in the field

Claim and Blame: How Welfare Law institutionalises Deservingness

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