Background The implications of decentralisation on human resource for health management has not received adequate research attention despite the presupposition that the concept of decentralisation leads to the transfer of management authority and discretion for human resource management from national levels to subnational levels. This study aims at investigating the extent to which decent...

In International Criminal Court (ICC), the prosecutorial discretion in nature is a hybrid of the common-law adversarial model and the inquisitorial approach of civil-law systems. This paper studies the ICC prosecutorial discretion from the perspectives of common law and civil law and draws the conclusion that the ICC needs some more time to carefully design the prosecutorial discretion to reach...

This article seeks to transform private security discretion from a subject discussed in passing substantive area of research. It first draws upon the police literature construct socio-economic model discretion. then uses this explore one specific articulation discretion: moral door supervisors as they deal with serious incidents night-time economy. uncovers three distinctive rule–norm–discretio...