Professionals, managers and discretion: Critiquing street-level bureaucracy

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 368-386

  Evans, Tony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

case study; Discretion; street level bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952983584     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcq074     Document Type: Article

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