EFFICIENCY, LEGITIMACY, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

IF 0.3 4区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS Social Philosophy & Policy Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1017/S0265052521000285
S. Decanio
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Abstract This essay examines certain epistemic problems facing administrative states’ efforts to draft efficient regulations for their societies. I argue that a basic feature of the administrative state’s authority, namely its monopoly over the production of legally binding rules for all members of a geographically defined society, creates epistemic problems that impede efficient rule-making. Specifically, the administrative state’s monopoly over the production of legally binding rules prevents multiple public policies from being simultaneously implemented and compared. The resulting singularity of administrative states’ regulatory decisions prevents observation of the counterfactual effects of policies that were possible but which were not implemented. The absence of observable policy counterfactuals frustrates efforts to assess the efficiency of administrative states’ decisions, as it is impossible to determine whether different policies would have generated greater benefits at lower cost than the policy the state implemented. As these epistemic problems are derived from the singularity of administrative states’ decisions, they exist independently of principal agent problems, suboptimal incentives, or the preferences and capabilities of administrative personnel.
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效率、合法性和行政国家
摘要本文考察了行政国家在为其社会起草有效法规时所面临的某些认知问题。我认为,行政国家权威的一个基本特征,即它对为地理上确定的社会的所有成员制定具有法律约束力的规则的垄断,造成了阻碍有效规则制定的认知问题。具体来说,行政国家对具有法律约束力的规则产生的垄断,使多项公共政策无法同时实施和比较。由此产生的行政国家监管决定的单一性阻碍了对可能但没有实施的政策的反事实效应的观察。可观察到的政策反事实的缺失阻碍了评估行政国家决策效率的努力,因为不可能确定不同的政策是否会比国家实施的政策以更低的成本产生更大的利益。由于这些认知问题源于行政国家决策的独特性,它们独立于委托代理问题、次优激励或行政人员的偏好和能力而存在。
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期刊介绍: Social Philosophy and Policy is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on the philosophical underpinnings of enduring social policy debates. The issues are thematic in format, examining a specific area of concern with contributions from scholars in different disciplines, especially philosophy, economics, political science and law. While not primarily a journal of policy prescriptions, some articles in each issue will typically connect theory with practice. The 2006 issues are "Justice and Global Politics" and "Taxation, Economic Prosperity, and Distributive Justice". The 2007 issues will be "Liberalism: Old and New" and "Ancient Greek Political Theory".
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