Discretion in the Welfare State - Social Rights and Professional Judgment

Informationen zum Autor Anders Molander is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway. Klappentext This book shows why the delegation of discretionary powers to professionals in the front-line of the welfare state is both unavoidable and problematic. It adds an epistemic dimension to the structural understanding of discretion, distinguishing between structural and epistemic measures of accountability. Zusammenfassung This book shows why the delegation of discretionary powers to professionals in the front-line of the welfare state is both unavoidable and problematic. It adds an epistemic dimension to the structural understanding of discretion, distinguishing between structural and epistemic measures of accountability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Discretion and Its Critics 2. The Anatomy of Discretion 3. Professional Discretion in the Welfare State: Two Normative Tensions 4. Mechanisms of Accountability 5. Summing Up

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• Authors: Anders Molander, Anders (Oslo and Akershus University Col Molander, Anders (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Molander, Anders (Oslo Metropolitan University Molander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138212428
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21242-8
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics; Routledge Advances in European Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education