Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies

Majka Ryan

doi:10.5771/9781538165256

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-6524-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-6525-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 188
Product type: Book Titles

1. Detailed Table of Contents No access
2. 1. The context of residence-based conditionality No access
  2. Conceptualising discretionary decision-making in welfare institutions No access
  3. Outline of Chapters No access
1. Exploring the meaning of discretion in welfare bureaucracy No access
2. 1. The role of discretion in a context of legislative and policy ambiguity No access
3. 1. Decision-makers and citizens No access
  2. Exceptional moments and favouritism No access
4. 1. Public expectations towards decision-makers No access
  2. Legitimacy of discretionary practice and decision-maker accountability No access
5. Conclusions No access
1. 1. Professional morality No access
  2. Morality of deservingness No access
2. Dilemmas in decision-making No access
3. 1. Organisational imprinting and workers socialisation No access
  2. Variations in decision-making No access
  3. Double agents: Contrasting identities of social-policy implementers No access
4. 1. Nomocracy and telocracy No access
5. 1. The Lipsky approach: Self-interested determinants of discretion No access
  2. Critical overview of the dominant narrative No access
  3. Client-centred decision-making: Citizen Agent Narrative No access
6. Conclusions No access
1. What is residence-based conditionality and why does it matter? No access
2. ‘Safeguarding’ welfare systems against mobile EU citizens at supra- and national levels No access
3. 1. The UK No access
  2. Germany No access
  3. Sweden No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. 1. From the Poor Law to National Insurance No access
  2. Free State and modern social security No access
  3. Social security reform in the last two decades No access
2. 1. What is the Irish HRC? No access
  2. The legal framework of the HRC No access
  3. The effect of the HRC on citizens No access
  4. HRC decision-making organisations No access
  5. Department of Social Protection No access
  6. The decision-making process No access
3. Conclusions No access
1. 1. Deciding Officers No access
  2. Designated Persons No access
  3. Appeals Officers No access
  4. How are the decision-makers equipped to make HRC decisions? No access
  5. Professional development No access
  6. Understanding of the legislation in practical terms No access
  7. Organisational culture and discretion No access
2. 1. Disallowances No access
  2. Allowances No access
3. 1. HRC1 No access
  2. Right to reside No access
  3. The five factors No access
  4. Centre of interest No access
  5. Guidelines No access
  6. A holistic approach No access
  7. Evidence No access
  8. When clients do not provide information No access
  9. Interactions with applicants No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. Moral economies of decision-making: it’s the right thing to do No access
2. 1. Protecting the public purse: Deserving vs. undeserving applicant No access
  2. Unfair discretion No access
  3. Resisting discretion No access
  4. The aim is consistency No access
  5. Subjectivity of decisions No access
3. 1. Discretion for the benefit of clients No access
4. 1. Invalid decisions No access
5. Should there be discretion in decision-making on the HRC? No access
6. Conclusions No access
1. What is discretion? No access
2. Decision-makers’ approaches towards discretion No access
3. 1. Organisational culture No access
  2. Job Role No access
  3. Moral economies: motivations No access
4. Discretionary practice and residence-based welfare conditionality No access
5. Summary No access
Bibliography No access Pages 167 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188