CiNii 図書 - Bureaucratic responsibility

A civil servant in the Pentagon blows the whistle on the Defense Department by leaking to the press stories of gross overspending. A high-level official in the Environmental Protection Agency publicly reports irregularities in the handling of toxic waste cleanup and the agency's head is forced to resign. The Energy Department fines oil companies for overcharging consumers; does an official overstep his bounds in ordering that the money be distributed to help the poor and elderly pay their heating bills? How much do bureaucrats know? And how much should they tell? In "Bureaucratic Responsibility", John Burke moves from case study to theory to explore what is perhaps the most basic problem confronting modern democracy: How are we to make those bureaucracies upon which government relies both accountable and responsive? Responsibility, Burke contends, must not be primarily to the formally defined terms and obligations of a particular office, but to the institutions of American democracy and the public consent. "Bureaucratic Responsibility" is a provocative combination of descriptive analysis, political theory, and prescriptive speculation-- and makes a timely case for a more responsible bureaucracy.

Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Bureaucratic Responsibility I: External Control? Chapter 2. Bureaucratic Responsibility II: An Inner Sense of Duty? Chapter 3. A Democratic Alternative and Its First Principle Chapter 4. The Second Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy Formation Chapter 5. The Third Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy Implementation Chapter 6. Harm, Social Justice, and the Scope of Bureaucratic Intervention Chapter 7. Hard Cases, Principles, and the Problem of Rights Chapter 8. Incorporating Professional Expertise Chapter 9. Dirty Hands. Moral Duty versus Political Obligation Chapter 10. Lying and Leaking Information Chapter 11. The Place of Individual and Group Participation Conclusion Notes Index

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