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Smart Principles and Smart Principals: Smart Mechanism to Enhance Street-Level Accountability
Jungwon Yeo and So Hee Jeon
PAQ, Vol. 45 No. 2,
143-165 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.45.2.2
This article presents a novel theoretical approach that aims to enhance the accountability of street-level bureaucrats. The authors conceptualize changes and reforms in and around the public sector as a smart mechanism that is composed of two key dimensions; a) smart principles (i.e., institutions and technological tools that support citizen participation), and b) smart principals (i.e., citizens who adopt those smart principles in monitoring and evaluating street-level agents’ behaviors). Then the authors suggest a theoretical framework that explains how applying the smart mechanism can limit deviant behaviors of street-level bureaucrats and contribute to enhancing street-level accountability.
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