Policy Implementation, Street-level Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Discretion

Public Management Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 527-547

  Tummers, Lars ^a   Bekkers, Victor ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discretion; policy implementation; public policy; quantitative analysis; street level bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897989321     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.841978     Document Type: Article

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