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The Unbearable Discretion of Street-Level Bureaucrats

Current Anthropology, 2018
Since 1974, Hong Kong has gone from being pervasively corrupt to being the best example of effective anti-corruption programs and, most recently, to experiencing widespread concerns about collusion...
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Street-level Bureaucrat Discretion

2017
Street-level bureaucrats occupy an important power position which they owe from their discretion. Broadly, discretion is their decisionmaking power over sort, quantity, and quality of sanctions and rewards during policy implementation. Understanding street-level bureaucrat discretion is therefore essential to the study of public administration. However
van Leeuwen, M.J., Tummers, L.G., Van de Walle, Steven   +2 more
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Principal-Agent Theory and Street Level Bureaucrats

School Psychology International, 1998
Principal-agent theory states that there is continual tension between bureaucrats and those who have legal authority over their behavior. One observation has been that principals often lose control over their agents. School psychologists can be viewed as agents, and administrators and the public as their principals.
Steven A. Peterson, Amy M. Brofcak Hartz
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Street-Level Bureaucrats: From Obedience to Participation

2021
This chapter presents the first piece of empirical evidence on the nature of officer–recipient relationships in Oportunidades-Prospera by scrutinizing the perspectives of physicians and nurses implementing the program in two localities of the state of Puebla. It presents the health officers’ experiences and attitudes toward program delivery, their work,
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ARE STREET‐LEVEL BUREAUCRATS COMPELLED OR ENTICED TO COPE?

Public Administration, 2006
Traditional studies of street‐level bureaucrats see the bureaucrat’s behaviour as a kind of self‐defence – a way to minimize negative aspects of the job and thereby job frustration. I argue – and empirically show – that it is equally relevant to consider at least part of street‐level bureaucrat behaviour as positively motivated – as a way of maximizing
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Experiments on and with Street-Level Bureaucrats

2021
Noah L. Nathan, Ariel White
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Street-level bureaucrats tussen organisaties

2013
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Brandsen, Taco, Oude Vrielink, Mirjan
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Information Communication Technology and the Street-Level Bureaucrat

2016
This chapter explains the theory behind an information communication technology (ICT) being developed to provide marginalised populations with a tool for uniting the voices of progressive-minded activists. The theory suggests that with this technology, seemingly incompatible progressive groups might enlarge their campaigns for social equity, creating a
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Street-level bureaucrats in environments of systemic corruption: sources of influence

The influences weighing on SLBs’ behaviour, attitudes, and proclivity towards corruption in environments of systemic corruption are many and difficult to disaggregate. Drawing from fieldwork on corruption in Mexican municipalities, this chapter offers a typology that helps identify different sources and levels of influence that weigh on SLBs and that ...
Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, Anat Gofen   +2 more
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Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats

Public Management Review, 2022
Maayan Davidovitz, Nissim Cohen
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