Discretionary Decision Making in the Housing Benefit Scheme: a case study

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This paper describes and analyses the decision making processes adopted by a Labour controlled local authority in exercising certain discretionary powers under the housing benefit scheme. The paper draws on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1986. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between councillors and officers, and to the potentialities and limitations of administrative discretion as a means through which to achieve explicitly political ends.

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