Public Hearings as Social Performance: Addressing the Courts, Restoring Citizenship

Public Assistance Hearings

ministrative expenses would be $1,433 million. Receipts and expenditures for that year, under present and proposed legislation combined, would be $4,018 million and $2,300 million, respectively, making possible the acquisition of new securities amounting to $1,718 million. The total assets of the trust fund are expected to reach $13,033 million by June 30, 1950, and $14,751 million by June 30, ...

Hearings in Public Assistance

*Bureau of Public Assistance, Standards and Program Development Division. The Social Security Act has always required as one of the conditions for Federal participation in State public assistance programs that the State laws provide an opportunity for a fair hearing to any person whose claim for assistance is denied. When the act was passed, the right to a fair hearing was a new concept in publ...

Courts and the Making of Public Policy The Courts and Social Policy in the United States

Citizenship and justice: public prosecutors in social contexts in Portugal

All over the world judicial systems are under tremendous pressure as the instruments used by citizens to access their full rights. The erosion of other state powers has transferred expectations of social intervention or, at least, protection for the rights of the weak and vulnerable, to the sphere of justice. Hence, in some countries the social role of judges or public prosecutors has become mo...

Restoring professionalism: What can Public Administration learn from Social Psychology?

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