Unmasking Administrative Evil
by Danny L. Balfour, Guy B. Adams, Ashley E. Nickels
5th Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781138362093 |
| eText ISBN | 9780429778551 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2020 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 240 |
Unmasking Administrative Evil, 5th Edition is a book that examines how tendencies toward dehumanization and genocide can become embedded in public affairs. It explores how ordinary professionals acting appropriately within routine organizational roles can participate in administrative evil.
The text addresses compliance and technical rationality alongside historical and public policy episodes where administrative systems harmed vulnerable communities. It also considers frameworks for public ethics in Praetorian times and approaches to fostering democratic governance.
Written for students of administrative ethics, public service ethics, and related administrative sciences, the 2020 edition introduces a three-part structure to support course instruction and adds a case study on the Flint water disaster.
Table of Contents
Part I: What is Administrative Evil?
Chapter 1: The Dynamics of Evil and Administrative Evil
Chapter 2: Compliance, Technical Rationality, and Administrative Evil
Part II: History and Cases
Chapter 3: Administrative Evil Unmasked: The Holocaust and Public Service
Chapter 4: Administrative Evil in the 21st Century: Abu Ghraib, Moral Inversion, and Torture Policy
Chapter 5: Public Policy, Administrative Evil, and Surplus Populations
Chapter 6: The Flint Water Disaster: From "Emergency Management" to Administrative Evil
Part III: The Future of Ethics in Praetorian Times
Chapter 7: Administrative Evil and Public Ethics in Praetorian Times
Chapter 8: Towards a New Context for Public Ethics: Three Approaches
Chapter 9: Afterword: Expiating Evil and Administrative Evil
Chapter Appendix A: Foreword to the Third Edition, _Philip G. Zimbardo_
Chapter Appendix B: Foreword to the Second Edition, _Charles B. Perrow_
Chapter Appendix C: Foreword to the First Edition, _Curtis Ventriss_
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