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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807069203321

Autore

Adams Guy B

Titolo

Unmasking administrative evil / / Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, c1998

ISBN

1-5063-1888-6

1-4522-3152-4

0-7619-0668-1

1-4522-6319-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 207 pages)

Collana

Advances in public administration

Altri autori (Persone)

BalfourDanny L

Disciplina

172/.2

Soggetti

Public administration - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dynamics of evil and administrative evil The framework of administrative evil: modernity and technical rationality Administrative evil unmasked: the Holocaust and public administration Administrative evil unmasked: from Mittelbau-Dora and Peenemunde to the Marshall Space Flight Center Organizational dynamics and administrative evil: The Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, and the space shuttle Challenger Public policy and administrative evilIn the face of administrative evil: finding a basis for ethics in the public service

Sommario/riassunto

With 'Unmasking Administrative Evil', Guy Adams and Danny Balfour maintain that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is inherent in modern public administration.