...-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract This article investigates how the use of discretion in public–private contracts interplays with transactional complexity in influencing contract renegotiations. Motivations for contract renegotiations may be positive, negative (e.g., opportunistic), or neutral, and we...

... to the significance of space and place, but few have explored the relationship between space and social workers’ ‘work knowledge’. The literature on professional discretion has focused on ways in which bureaucratization, rules, and procedures structure and limit the ability to engage meaningfully with clients...

... justice in practice, such as carving out discretionary spaces within casework. However, in Switzerland, collective agency also emerged in the form of anti-cuts campaigning alongside service users. The literature tends to counterpose these micro and macro levels of agency, theorising discretion...

... License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract According to the transaction-costs perspective on delegation, decision-makers grant more discretion...

... understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literature, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency policy discretion. We draw...

... and protection with a strong family support focus, which carries a risk of overlooking children who need protection. Drawing on an understanding of social service organisations as street-level bureaucracies, this article explores discretion in child abuse cases by examining conditions affecting discretion...

... threaten the citizens’ freedom. This article describes Rousseau’s constitutional solution, which combines a conservative-yet-progressive legislative ethos, with pluralist institutionalism and judicial non-professionalism. Rousseau judicial discretion republicanism freedom mixed constitution...

... decisions depends on two main factors. The first one is the diversity of corporate strategies, which firms have developed in the past. The second driver is managerial discretion, that plays an important role in the adoption of specific investment/divestment trajectories when faced with a recession...

... and undermine the agencies’ ability to carry out their statutory mandates. administrative law agency discretion environmental law expertise public administration What are the key ingredients for administrative competence? Elizabeth Fisher, to whom this Special Issue is dedicated, has been a thought-leader...

...Carolin Schütze H1: When frontline professionals experience more work pressure, they experience less discretion. Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions...

...Ralph Henham sentencing policy social justice judicial discretion restorative justice Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice and Senior Research Fellow, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK. Email: [email protected] . © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] Abstract The new law of contractual discretion is developing apace...

... firms. When, instead, workers can easily move to other firms, agents may prefer to become entrepreneurs and acquire task discretion, even if their short-term payoff is lower than employees. Our model generates novel predictions with respect to, for example, how the wage dynamics of agents who switch...

.... The findings underscore the ways in which social policies change dramatically during their implementation, the role of senior managers of social services, and the implications for service users. Israel local social services policymaking social work discretion street-level managers Public policies...

... of law within multi-level migration governance and to the meaning of legal ambiguity and discretion as shaped by law and legal interpretation. The strategies of divergence that mould discretionary spaces, in turn, either mitigate or exacerbate legal uncertainty and should be considered a significant...

...Ciarán Murphy Notably, the existing social work literature has largely focussed on discussing ‘discretion’ in the context of statutory adult service provision (e.g. Baldwin, 2000 ; Evans, 2010 , 2013 , 2016 ; Ellis, 2011 , 2014 ). Where ‘discretion’ has been considered in the context...

... 2018 ). The reorganization can be seen as part of the changes that are referred to as New Public Management (NPM), with the goal to increase transparency, discretion, and accountability for the managers with more focus on measurable aspects of the police work, like, for example, clearance rates...

... the interaction with and belonging to colleagues are so important, what happens with discretion? The aim of this article was to develop the understanding of collective discretion in compulsory care for youth and the influence of emotional aspects in developing a collective discretionary practice. The empirical...

... mandatory sit-down meetings, curfew, abstaining from drugs/alcohol/internet/public areas, community programming, chemical castration and surveillance. Through dispositifs, ISU agent discretion becomes paramount in: (1) qualitatively understanding subjects’ unique characteristics and framing them...

... and supported by frontline healthcare workers. Sierra Leone surgery user fees discretion quality of care staff morale KEY MESSAGES Patients perceive that patients who can afford to engage in informal payments to health workers, and those who have some connection to the hospital, receive higher standards...