David Cowan, Simon Halliday

The Appeal of Internal Review (eBook, PDF)

Law, Administrative Justice and the (non-) Emergence of Disputes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why do most welfare applicants fail to challenge adverse decisions despite a continuing sense of need?

The book addresses this severely under-researched and under-theorised question. Using English homelessness law as their case study,the authors explore why homeless applicants did -- but more often did not -- challenge adverse decisions by seeking internal administrative review. They draw out from their data a list of the barriers to the take up of grievance rights. Further, by combining extensive interview data from aggrieved homeless applicants with ethnographic data about bureaucratic decision-making, they are able to situate these barriers within the dynamics of the citizen-bureaucracy relationship. Additionally, they point to other contexts which inform applicants' decisions about whether to request an internal review. Drawing on a diverse literature -- risk, trust, audit, legal consciousness, and complaints -- the authors lay the foundations for our understanding of the (non-)emergence of administrative disputes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847312389
• Artikelnr.: 52963975

Autorenporträt

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.