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.
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