Administrative Justice and the Control of Bureaucracy

Name: Administrative Justice and the Control of Bureaucracy
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509927074
Price: 945.75 HKD
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Author: Chris Gill
ISBN: 9781509927074

By Chris Gill

Hart Publishing March 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781509927074
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: March 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book answers key questions about the relationship between administrative justice institutions and government officials through a new theoretical model, derived from an innovative analysis of interdisciplinary literature and an empirical case study.

This groundbreaking model develops existing work on the control of bureaucracy by emphasising three under-explored areas:

the nature of the issues which citizens raise and the ways in which the matters are presented
the fundamental structure of government decision-making whereby different forms of organisation produces different responses to attempts by administrative justice institutions to achieve control, and
the operational practices of administrative justice institutions, where comparisons between three distinctive institutions help to identify features of institutional design that facilitate or prevent the exercise of control

1. Introduction

Part 1: Theoretical Foundations

2. Bureaucratic Control in the Modern State

3. Administrative Justice Institutions as Control Mechanisms: an Empirically Based Model

Part 2: The Design and Operation of Administrative Justice Institutions

4. Controlling Through Cases: Inherent Limitations of Control

5. Purpose, Process, and Power: Design Variables and the Control Function

6. Norms, Principles, and Standards: Control to What End?

Part 3: Bureaucratic Decision-Making in Context

7. Law, Policy, and Process: the Importance of Bureaucratic Contexts

8. Bureaucratic Responses: Perceptions, Responses, and Structures

9. A Web of Control: Rival Influences and the Place of Administrative Justice