Discretion In The Welfare State
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Author |
: Anders Molander |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 101 |
Release |
: 2016-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315450476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131545047X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discretion in the Welfare State by : Anders Molander
This book shows why the delegation of discretionary powers to professionals in the front-line of the welfare state is both unavoidable and problematic. It adds an epistemic dimension to the structural understanding of discretion, distinguishing between structural and epistemic measures of accountability.
Author |
: Robert E. Goodin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1988-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691022798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691022796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons for Welfare by : Robert E. Goodin
Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any such broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments that is both acute and devastating. In the author's view, the welfare state is best justified as a device for protecting needy--and hence vulnerable--members of society against the risk of exploitation by those possessing discretionary control over resources that they require. Its task is to protect the interests of those not in a position to protect themselves. Communitarian or egalitarian ideals may lead us to move beyond the welfare state as thus conceived and justified. Moving beyond it, however, does not invalidate the arguments for constantly maintaining at least the minimal protections necessary for vulnerable members of society.
Author |
: Tony Evans |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317075370 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317075374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Professional Discretion in Welfare Services by : Tony Evans
Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification of management culture across the public sector. This book presents an innovative framework for the analysis of discretion, offering three accounts of the managerial role - the domination model, the street level model and the author's alternative discursive perspective. These different regimes of discretion are examined through a case study within a social services department, comparing and contrasting social work discretion in an Older Persons Team and a Mental Health Team. This innovative, theoretical and empirical analysis will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers in social work and related disciplines including social policy, public administration and organizational studies, as well as professionals in social work, health and education.
Author |
: Majka Ryan |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2023-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538165256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538165252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies by : Majka Ryan
Through case-study research, Majka Ryan offers a systematic microanalysis of discretion in a specific context of residence-based welfare conditionality derived from the labour movement directive 2004/38/EC. The latter is utilised in the coordination of social security benefits for mobile EU citizens across Europe. Ryan reveals that in Ireland and other jurisdictions, official rights, be they supranational or local, when translated into practice are shaped by different political, organisational and decision-making actors, consequently leading to an uneven distribution of substantive rights and unequal outcomes for different groups of people, disproportionately affecting those who must prove their deservingness. This book evidences how residence-based welfare conditions create a context where power is exercised freely by street-level decision-makers and illustrates how that power affects different groups in society, and consequently, how through those practices, the hegemonic discourses around legitimacy of access to public resources are reproduced.
Author |
: Anthony A. Donnelly |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:271038357 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discretionary Powers and the Welfare State by : Anthony A. Donnelly
Author |
: Anders Molander |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 2016-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315450469 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315450461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discretion in the Welfare State by : Anders Molander
Welfare state professionals decide or establish premises as to whom will receive what, in what manner, when and how much, and when enough is enough. They control who passes through the gates of the welfare state. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of discretion. It shows why the delegation of discretionary powers to professionals in the front-line of the welfare state is both unavoidable and problematic. Extensive use of discretion can threaten the principles of the rule of law and relinquish democratic control over the implementation of laws and policies. The book introduces an understanding of discretion that adds an epistemic dimension (discretion as a mode of reasoning) to the common structural understanding of discretion (an area of judgment and decision). Accordingly, it distinguishes between structural and epistemic measures of accountability. The aim of the former is to constrain discretionary spaces or the behavior within them while the aim of the latter is to improve the quality of discretionary reasoning. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students in the fields of applied philosophy, public policy and public administration, welfare state research, and the sociology of professions.
Author |
: Kathi V. Friedman |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2017-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469647869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469647869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legitimation of Social Rights and the Western Welfare State by : Kathi V. Friedman
This discerning and timely study revitalizes Weber's ideas, applying them to welfare state redistributions and synthesizing them with major issues in political science, law, public administration, social welfare policy, and philosophy. Friedman depicts both the emergence of the welfare state in Britain and the United States and the special problems of legitimizing social rights raised by the need for administration of those rights. Originally published in 1991. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author |
: Tony Evans |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2019-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030195663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 303019566X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom by : Tony Evans
Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives. Traditionally, discussions of discretion have drawn on legal notions of the appropriate exercise of legitimate authority specified by legislators. However, empirical and theoretical studies in the social sciences have extended our understanding of discretion, moving us beyond a narrow legal view. Contributors from a range of disciplines explore the idea of discretion and related notions of freedom and control across social and political practices and in different contexts. As this complex and important topic is discussed and examined, both total control and unconstrained freedom appear to be illusions.
Author |
: Lucy A. Williams |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 603 |
Release |
: 2020-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000113860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000113868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Welfare Law by : Lucy A. Williams
This title was first published in 2001: Welfare law is a legal field integral to most jurisprudential formulations, whether artificially designated as doctrinal, theoretical or practical. At its core, legal discourse regarding welfare challenges the formulations traditionally viewed as ’pre-legal’, the ’background rules’ of property, tort and contract law. In addition, it affects a large percentage of the world’s population, highlights the social construction of identities and perhaps more than any other area of law, graphically epitomizes the intersection of class, race and gender distinctions. However, within both the legal academy and practice, welfare law has been marginalized and viewed as a field that does not connect to any but a small sector of lawyers and legal clients. Isolated as an arcane domain of either statutory and regulatory legal minutiae or jurisprudential insignificance, welfare law has never realized its potential as a major hub for legal theoretical discourse. The articles in this volume seek to expose the roots of the essentialized view of welfare law as nonessential and re-establish its value and importance.
Author |
: Evelyn Z. Brodkin |
Publisher |
: Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2013-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626160019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626160015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Work and the Welfare State by : Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor, unemployed, and marginalized populations subject to these policies. By adopting a street-level approach to welfare state research, Work and the Welfare State reveals the critical, yet largely hidden, role of governance and management reforms in the evolution of the global workfare project. It shows how these reforms have altered organizational arrangements and practices to emphasize workfare’s harsher regulatory features and undermine its potentially enabling ones. As a major contribution to expanding the conceptualization of how organizations matter to policy and political transformation, this book will be of special interest to all public management and public policy scholars and students.