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Breaking the Rules
Jon Pynoos
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Description for Breaking the Rules
Paperback. Series: Environment, Development and Public Policy: Cities and Development. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; KCP; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
This is a study of how a bureaucracy allocates a commodity or a service in this case, public housing. In the broadest sense, it seeks to understand how bureaucrats try to resolve two often conflicting goals of regulatory justice: equity (treating like cases alike on the basis of rules) and respon siveness (making exceptions for persons whose needs require that rules be stretched). It analyzes the extent to which such factors as bureaucratic norms, the task orientation of workers, third-party pressure, and outside intervention affect staff members' use of discretion. Many of the rules under consideration were intended by federal ... Read more
This is a study of how a bureaucracy allocates a commodity or a service in this case, public housing. In the broadest sense, it seeks to understand how bureaucrats try to resolve two often conflicting goals of regulatory justice: equity (treating like cases alike on the basis of rules) and respon siveness (making exceptions for persons whose needs require that rules be stretched). It analyzes the extent to which such factors as bureaucratic norms, the task orientation of workers, third-party pressure, and outside intervention affect staff members' use of discretion. Many of the rules under consideration were intended by federal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Series
Environment, Development and Public Policy: Cities and Development
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461293019
SKU
V9781461293019
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99-15
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