Conceptual Skills and the Public Administrator: Good Judgment and the Logic of Principles

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5 This does not imply that principles are immutable and unresponsive to changing cultural norms. It simply means that the essence of consistency lies in some degree of precedent.

6 L. D. Phillips , W. L. Hays , and W. Edwards , "Conservatism in Complex Probabilistic Inference," IEEE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, Vol. HFE-7, No. 1 (March 1966), pp. 7-18.

7 William T. Morris , Decision Analysis (Columbus: Grid, Inc., 1977), p. 30.

8 John Rawls , A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 26.

9 William Rehnquist , "Public Dissent and the Public Employee," Civil Service Journal 11 (January-March 1971): pp. 7-12.

10 Edward Levi , An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948).

11 Thomas Kuhn , The Structures of Scientific Revolution, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970).