Street-Level Discretion During Caretaker Periods: Situating Pakistan in the Context of Democracy and Transitional Government

• In Event: Democracy in transition: Hybrid, Illiberal and Authoritarian regimes

Brief Overview

This paper uses discretion as a cross-cutting characteristic to understand how street-level bureaucracy theory may help us to understand the actions of caretaker governments that oversee elections in many parliamentary democracies.

Authors

• Asad Ejaz Butt, University of Massachusetts-Boston

• Peter Stanley Federman, University of Massachusetts-Boston