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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages S16-S23Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02633.x
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Street-level workers' judgments, decisions, and actions touch on questions of social equity, a dominant theme of H. George Frederickson's deep contributions to public administration scholarship. Based on empirical work, the authors question the dominant implementation-control-discretion narrative and suggest an alternative framing based on the concepts of agency and pragmatic improvisation. Street-level workers are often conservers of institutional norms and practices, but their work surfaces tensions between practice and the goals of social equity.
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