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bureaucratic discretion: a standalone construct

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bureaucraticdiscretion1 CONSTRUCTBureaucratic discretionSCOTT · PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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Public administration

the latitude public employees have in deciding how to apply rules to individual cases.

In public administration, bureaucratic discretion refers to the latitude public employees have in deciding how to apply rules to individual cases. This meaning comes from Scott (1997) in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.[1]

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  1. Scott, P. G. (1997). Assessing Determinants of Bureaucratic Discretion: An Experiment in Street-Level Decision Making. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 7(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a024341

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