This paper unravels the claim to unified reasons for decision underlying much public law scholarship. Using Valverde’s concept of spatiotemporal scale as an analytical tool, it shows how unified reasons only make sense at the scale of judicially-reviewable administrative decisions. In response, it investigates how data, notes, and reasons fluidly shift at the scale of front-line decision-making in Ontario’s welfare program. Drawing from a qualitative study of welfare caseworkers, this article suggests that reasons for administrative decisions are multiple and fractured throughout software programs, emails, and physical files. Further, it demonstrates how notes and data entries function together to articulate why caseworkers make particular decisions, and that caseworker notes perform three internal communicative tasks central to administrative governance: recording evidence, explaining decisions, and justifying potentially contentious actions.

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旁观者眼中的团结？安大略工程项目的理论和实践决定的原因

这篇论文揭示了许多公法奖学金背后的统一决策理由的主张。使用 Valverde 的时空尺度概念作为分析工具，它展示了统一的理由只有在可司法审查的行政决定的尺度上才有意义。作为回应，它调查了数据、注释和原因如何在安大略省福利计划的一线决策范围内流畅地变化。本文从福利个案工作者的定性研究中得出结论，行政决定的原因是多方面的，而且贯穿软件程序、电子邮件和物理文件。此外，它还演示了笔记和数据条目如何共同作用以阐明个案工作者做出特定决定的原因，