When a Decision Appears Concluded: On Temporal Non-Identifiability and Reviewability (Series Note 11)

This publication is part of the series Public Analytical Notes (Note 11), which provides short, analytically framed texts on evaluation and decision-making in institutional and administrative contexts. The note examines a configuration in which a decision is represented as concluded within available documentation, while the temporal and procedural relations underlying evaluation are not identifiable in the available material.It focuses on the relation between documented representation and procedural sequencing, and describes a situation in which identifiable elements include decision outcomes and references to evaluation, while the relations linking such references to identifiable evaluative acts, together…