Betwixt agency and accountability: re-visioning street-level bureaucrats
This paper presents a critical assessment of the much-discussed tension between bureaucratic accountability and the contextual discretion of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ (i.e. front-line public sector workers). Based on an extensive literature review, the paper outlines the implications of the exerci...
Main Authors: | Priyanshu Gupta, Manish Thakur, Bhaskar Chakrabarti |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2022-05-01
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Series: | Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance |
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Online Access: | http://10.44.11.29:8080/index.php/cjlg/article/view/8173 |
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