Response Without Identifiable Answer: On the Distinction Between Reply and Answer in Administrative Communication (Series Note 7)

This publication is part of the series Public Analytical Notes, which provides short, analytically framed texts on evaluation and decision-making in institutional and administrative contexts. The note examines a configuration in administrative communication in which responses to submitted inquiries are identifiable as documented acts, while the relations linking these responses to the treatment of the issues raised are not identifiable in the available documentation. It focuses on the identifiability of relations between inquiries and their treatment, and describes a situation in which communicative acts are present, while the relations necessary to reconstruct what may be understood as answers are not fully…