TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency
T2 - an experimental study in China
AU - Yang, Fan
AU - Huang, Xiaoxia
AU - Li, Zhichao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - How is the discretion of police officers influenced by clients’ gender and situational visibility under emergency regulations? To answer this question, this study uses the scenario-based-experimental-survey data collected from 878 police officers from three cities in China under the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that the effect of gender congruence on the leniency of officers is only significantly positive when police and clients are both female. However, situational visibility will weaken the gender effect, reducing the officers’ leniency towards females. Moreover, visibility makes police even harsher towards male violators. The findings provide some practical implications.
AB - How is the discretion of police officers influenced by clients’ gender and situational visibility under emergency regulations? To answer this question, this study uses the scenario-based-experimental-survey data collected from 878 police officers from three cities in China under the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that the effect of gender congruence on the leniency of officers is only significantly positive when police and clients are both female. However, situational visibility will weaken the gender effect, reducing the officers’ leniency towards females. Moreover, visibility makes police even harsher towards male violators. The findings provide some practical implications.
KW - Gender
KW - discretionary decision-making
KW - situational visibility
KW - street-level bureaucrats
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U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1886316
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1886316
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100899602
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 24
SP - 1312
EP - 1329
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
IS - 8
ER -