Sympathetic discretionary interventions fail to resolve discretion’s structural dilemmas.

Evidence

However one might sympathize with court personnel who take discretionary actions in clients’ interests, one can- not conclude that they substantially resolve the dilemmas of confining the scope of discretion and negating the consequences of rule-bound bureaucracy. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1112

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Depolarization interventions produce small, decaying effects that fail to scale or shift downstream attitudes — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard: Evaluating…, 18; Modest affective depolarization gains fail to shift downstream attitudes and behaviors. — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard: Evaluating…, 41; Social-capital interventions fail precisely where they are needed most — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1104 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Depolarization interventions produce small, decaying effects that fail to scale or shift downstream attitudes #exemplifies (0.75) — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard, 18
• Modest affective depolarization gains fail to shift downstream attitudes and behaviors. #exemplifies (0.75) — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard, 41
• Social-capital interventions fail precisely where they are needed most #exemplifies (0.75) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1104
• Interventions based on recategorization fail under real-world constraints #exemplifies (0.75)
• Interventions effective in controlled settings may fail to produce large-scale durable polarization change. #exemplifies (0.75) — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard, 73