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Co-decision Procedures
Comparative Consistency
Complete Discretion
Disability Pension
Discretionary Judgments
Discretionary Powers
Discretionary Reasoning
Discretionary Spaces
Epistemic Mechanisms
epistemic reasoning in welfare systems
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Extensive Discretionary Power
Face To Face
Follow
front-line decision making
Hypothetical Imperatives
Inferential Errors
Medical Eligibility Criteria
Molander
Negative Liberties
Norwegian General Practitioners
Pay For Performance
professional autonomy research
Professional Discretion
public administration
public policy
rule of law challenges
social policy analysis
Street Level Bureaucrats
Vice Versa
Weak Warrants
welfare
Welfare Reforms
Welfare State Professionals
Product details
- ISBN 9781138212428
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Welfare state professionals decide or establish premises as to whom will receive what, in what manner, when and how much, and when enough is enough. They control who passes through the gates of the welfare state. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of discretion. It shows why the delegation of discretionary powers to professionals in the front-line of the welfare state is both unavoidable and problematic. Extensive use of discretion can threaten the principles of the rule of law and relinquish democratic control over the implementation of laws and policies. The book introduces an understanding of discretion that adds an epistemic dimension (discretion as a mode of reasoning) to the common structural understanding of discretion (an area of judgment and decision). Accordingly, it distinguishes between structural and epistemic measures of accountability. The aim of the former is to constrain discretionary spaces or the behavior within them while the aim of the latter is to improve the quality of discretionary reasoning. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students in the fields of applied philosophy, public policy and public administration, welfare state research, and the sociology of professions.
Anders Molander is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway.
