Street-level bureaucrats shape policy through using discretion in their interactions with citizens and service users delivering public services. Discretion allows street-level to bridge between the complex, individual, human situations they encounter. Drawing on insights from feminist institutionalism, this article establishes gender as a relevant analytical category understanding discretion. W...

Chiara Cordelli’s book The Privatized State makes an important contribution to debates over the morality of public administration and widespread privatization. Cordelli argues that privatization is a problem legitimacy, as private actors impose their will unilaterally on others. Bureaucratic decision-making, by contrast, can be legitimate, within correct institutional context in accordance with...

The article continues the discussion on topical issue of administrative discretion for Russian administrative-legal theory and legal practice, organized by editors journal “Siberian Law Review” pages two previous issues with participation P. Serkov Yu. Solovey. Author focuses state modern domestic doctrine discretion, contribution scholars to its development, need possibility (including criteri...

It has long been recognised that discretion is vital to good police work. However, in Britain (and many other countries), practices of discretion in the stop and search context have come under much scrutiny as it has widely been linked to racist practices, i.e. a disproportionate amount of Black and minority ethnic individuals are stopped and searched compared to White people. In a bid to count...

D iscussions of rules vs. discretion have occupied a central place in the analysis of macroeconomic policies in dynamic models. Costas Azariadis and Vincenzo Galasso have presented a new model that shows how a discretionary policy regime can lead to a more volatile fiscal policy than one pursued under a constitutional rule. They set up a simple fiscal policy story and examine the potential for ...