Understanding how decision-makers practice discretion in the context of the Habitual Residence Condition in the Republic of Ireland
| Autor: | Majka Monika Ryan, Martin J. Power |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Public economics
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050209 industrial relations Discretion General Social Sciences Context (language use) Habitual Residence Condition Habitual residence The Republic decision making 0506 political science welfare Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Welfare media_common |
| Zdroj: | Irish Journal of Sociology. 28:143-167 |
| ISSN: | 2050-5280 0791-6035 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0791603520922815 |
| Popis: | peer-reviewed This paper seeks to gain a greater understanding of how decision-makers practice discretion in the context of the Habitual Residence Condition, an additional criterion for eligibility to social assistance payments in the Republic of Ireland. The paper identifies two approaches to using discretion: nomocratic and telocratic, with both largely emerging as a result of specific structural and cultural conditions that exist within the organisations concerned, and directly impacting the decision-making practices of public servants. Some decision-makers are found to be happy to make discretionary decisions, while others struggle, resist and protest against the deployment of discretion in the provision of social assistance, instead arguing for rigid rules that can be applied to all welfare applicants. ACCEPTED peer-reviewed |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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