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The Appeal of Internal Review: Law, Administrative Justice and the (Non-) Emergence of Disputes

By Simon Halliday , David Cowan

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
1841133833, 9781841133836, 9781847312389
Open Library ID
OL3318531M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
872 kB (893264 bytes)
Pages
220\232
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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-theorized 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.

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