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Bureaucratic Responsibility

John P. Burke

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Grounded chiefly in moral philosophy and political theory, the work seeks a joining of politics and administration in a theoretically informed and defensible manner... A work that warrants careful reading and serious reflection.

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5.75
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9
Pages
296
ISBN
9780801836541
Table of Contents

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

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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John P. Burke

John P. Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 and author of Bureaucratic Responsibility, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.