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Do street-level bureaucrats have discretionary power? Analysing the immigration detention policy implementation from the perspective of organizational power struggles in Belgian ‘closed centres'

Political Research Exchange
‘Discretionary power' suffers from conceptual ambiguity. Is it an attribute of individual street-level bureaucrats, or an organizational prerogative?
Andrew Crosby
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Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Faculty as street-level bureaucrats: discretionary decision-making in the era of generative AI

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionThis study examines how university faculty members at an internationalized higher education institution in the UAE navigate the challenges of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) plagiarism through the theoretical lens of Michael ...
Rami Alsharefeen, Rami Alsharefeen
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The Street-Level Bureaucrats – an Analysis on the Future of the Romanian Front-Line Public Services

, 2020
The study focuses on street-level bureaucrats in Romania and on their activity within public services. In this paper we will describe how the issue of discretionary power is tackle in emergency situations and the theoretical framework in the area.
Carausan, Mihaela Victorita
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Rethinking Reproductive Governance: What Can Public Administration on the Island of Ireland Learn From Abortion Accompaniment?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Street-level bureaucrats help clients, even in difficult circumstances [PDF]

, 2015
This policy brief presents the main findings of the Marie Curie Project “COPING: Policy implementation in stressful times: Analyzing coping strategies of civil servants”.
Tummers, LG
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Navigating the Algorithmic State: Public Values and Citizens' Preferences of AI‐Driven Public Service Delivery

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public sector increasingly adopts AI‐powered automated decision systems (ADS), understanding how citizens experience and value ADS use in public decision‐making is both normatively and practically important. Therefore, we examine and compare the effects of seven attributes of public values on citizens' support for ADS adoption in two ...
Guimin Zheng, Heewon Lee, Wenhui Li, Yixin Liu, Tian Tang   +4 more
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AI Public Value Creation: Data Encoding, Aggregation, and Algorithmic Computation

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI systems in public administration challenge the premise that value creation arises from managers' strategic mediation among the vertices of Moore's strategic triangle: Public value, legitimacy, and operational capacity. AI imposes new logics that reshape vertices and their interaction dynamics.
Antonio Cordella, Francesco Gualdi
wiley   +1 more source

Qui sont les « agents de terrain » des agences de l’eau ?

Développement Durable et Territoires
In this article, we explore a “fuzzy” job, that of intervention officer for the Water Agencies. Real Street-level bureaucrats, these agents do not merely process subsidy applications.
Ophélie Schnitzler, François Destandau
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Street Level Bureaucrats as the Ultimate Policy Makers

Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs, 2017
This article examines road safety policy implementation process in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. For conceptualization purposes, it has employed the street level bureaucratic theory which is an offshoot of the principal agency theory. The data collection and analysis was guided by cross-sectional study design composed of structured observation ...
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