Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies - Understanding Decision-Making in the Context of Rule Ambiguity

This book reveals the dynamics of discretionary power in welfare institutions and evidences the effect that this power has on the operation of the welfare state.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Discourses of Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies
Chapter 2 Theorising Discretionary Power on Access to Social Assistance
Chapter 3 Residence-Based Conditionality and Mobile EU Citizens' Social Rights
Chapter 4 Social Security, Discretion and Residence-Based Conditionality in Ireland
Chapter 5 Operationalising Discretion
Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Discretionary Decision-Making
Conclusions
Bibliography

About the author

By Majka Ryan

Product details

• Authors: Majka Ryan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538165249
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6524-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Discourse, Power and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity