Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Formal and informal controls of government over social security expenditure: An analysis

The organisation of the thesis will follow a seven-chapter structure. The researcher will use the term thesis as used by Perry (1994) to describe the entire work, while the related terms research and study will be used interchangeably when referring to the research undertaken in the thesis. This thesis could make a significant contribution to the social control literature by addressing these shortcomings and identifying and examining the formal and informal mechanisms used conjointly by the government and its agencies to control social security expenditures and also social outcomes.