scholarly journals Private profit versus public service: Competing demands in urban transportation history and policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872–1970

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Private Profit ◽  
Transportation History

Buses: public service or private profit?

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Blundred
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Private Profit

scholarly journals Dealing With Questions of Responsiveness in a Low-Discretion Context: Offers of Assistance in Standardized Public Service Encounters

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 1333-1361
Author(s):  
Elin Thunman ◽  
Mats Ekström ◽  
Anders Bruhn
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Competing Demands

A key theme in the research on bureaucratic encounters pertains to street-level bureaucrats’ opportunities for responsiveness when discretion is constrained by the introduction of standardized service delivery regulations, such as information communication technology (ICT). This article contributes to existing scholarship by exploring how low-discretion officials at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency Customer Center manage competing demands of making decisions that are built on regulations and simultaneously responding to the situation at hand and individuals’ needs. Analyzing real-time interactions using the conversation analytical concept of “offers of assistance” enables us to discover new aspects of interactional practices of responsiveness in standardized service encounters.

scholarly journals Dispatches: Public Service, Private Profit

BMJ ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 333 (7564) ◽  
pp. 402.2
Author(s):  
Trevor Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Private Profit

Ballistics, Bertillonage, and Ballyhoo

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-222
Author(s):  
Noah Tsika
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Public Service ◽  
General Electric ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
New Jersey State Police ◽  
State Police ◽  
Private Profit

This chapter considers some key intersections between cinema and criminal science, centering on a little-known case study: so-called suspect films—observational shorts produced initially by the New Jersey State Police and an assortment of municipal counterparts and later by private companies like RCA, Universal, and General Electric. As this case study reveals, cinema’s utility as a tool of policing was far from simple or self-evident. It had to be carefully constructed, aggressively promoted, and rendered profitable in a political economy in which the line between public service and private profit was rarely very distinct.

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