1st Edition

Responsive Legality The New Administrative Justice

By Zach Richards Copyright 2019
    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    Responsive Legality is an important book about twenty first century justice. It explores the legal and moral values that twenty-first-century public officials use to make their decisions, engaging existing theoretical models of administrative justice and updating them to reflect changed twenty-first-century conditions. Together, these features of twenty-first century public administration are coined ‘responsive legality’. Whereas twentieth-century public officials were generally driven by their concern for bureaucratic rationality, professional treatment, moral judgement and – towards the end of the century – the logics of ‘new managerialism’, the twenty-first-century public official embodies greater complexity in their characteristic pursuit of substantive and procedural justice. In responsive legality, government decision makers show a distinct concern for the protective parameters of the rule of law, a purposive pursuit of fair outcomes and a commitment to flexible decision making.

    Acknowledgments

    One: The New Administrative Justice

    Two: Contemporary Public Administration

    Three: Responsiveness

    Four: Substantive Fairness and Procedural Consistency

    Five: Applying Experience and Verifying the Truth

    Six: Protecting Welfare through the Rule of Law

    Seven: Responsive Legality in Good Governance

    Index

    Biography

    Zach Richards is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK