Social Work Senior Managers as Street-Level Policymakers.
This study enhances the knowledge regarding the role of senior managers of street-level organisations in reshaping social policy on the ground, a subject that has been side-lined in research. The study focused on the ways senior managers of local government social services in Israel, all of whom are...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 2348 - 2367 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2022
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