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100			_aAlexander, Jennifer
245			_aAdministrative discretion: can we move beyond Cider House Rules?
260			_c2007
300			_ap.51-64.
362			_aMar
520			_aThe authors use a novel. The Cider House Rules, as a framework to examine legitimate administrative action when execution of a law will result in harm. Four political values that have informed administrative dissent are reviewed: publicity, utility, democracy, and liberty. The authors identify questions to serve as guidelines for front-line administrators when deciding to exercise discretion in opposition to a political mandate. The questions offer checkpoints for considering whether administrative action in opposition to mandate is ethical. The authors extend the logic of the new public service by arguing that administrators are responsible for protecting liberty because liberty is constitutionally fundamental and particularly at risk in the case of citizens peripheral to political processes. The authors argue that administrative discretion in opposition to mandate requiring secrecy or misrepresentation may be exercised under particular circumstances, for the protection of individual liberty, given its elevated status among the regime values. - Reproduced.
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aEthics
650			_aAdministrative law
700			_aRichmond, Samuel A.
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a75204
999			_c75204 _d75204