Reconciling public administration and democracy : (Record no. 33782)
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| Koha Dewey Subclass [OBSOLETE] | PHL2MARC21 1.1 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | BURKE, John P. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 40742 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Reconciling public administration and democracy : |
| Remainder of title | the role of the responsible administrator |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Marcel Dekker, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1997 |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This article considers whether the individual responsibilities of bureaucratic officials provide a useful means for reconciling the tension between democracy and bureaucracy. Three questions central to the proper definition of bureaucratic responsibility are examined: (1) What is the relation of bureaucratic responsibility to the view that proper bureaucratic conduct is essentially a matter of ethics and morality? (2) If the appeal to moral values does not ordinarily offer an acceptable guide to proper bureaucratic conduct, upon what principles does a theory of bureaucratic responsibility rest? (3) What issues arise in putting responsibility into practice within a complex organizational setting? The article concludes that a democratic, process-based conception offers the most useful way of thinking about the responsibilities of bureaucratic officials. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The tension between democracy and bureaucracy has bedeviled public administration. However one defines democracy, its core demand for responsiveness (to higher political authorities, the public, client groups, or whatever the presumed agent of democratic rule) does not neatly square with notions of effective organization of the policy process and efficient delivery of goods and services, which are central to the definition of bureaucracy. Responsiveness need not guarantee efficiency, while bureaucratic effectiveness and efficiency often belie democratic control. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This tension between democracy and bureaucracy persists, but that it is the individual administrator who directly experiences the tension is especially important as a guide toward a resolution of this conflict. Since divergence is central to this tension between democracy and bureaucracy, speculation about the responsibilities of bureaucratic officialstheir individual places within the bureaucracy, particularly the administrator's thoughts, choices, and actionsprovides fruitful terrain for resolving the question of bureaucracy's place within a democratic system of rule. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Three questions need to be addressed if one accepts the premise that individual responsibility is central to locating the place of bureaucracy in a democratic order. First, what is unique about bureaucratic responsibility, especially in contrast to the view that these are largely ethical problems that can be resolved by appeal to moral values? Second, if dilemmas of bureaucratic conduct are by and large not resolvable through appeal to moral values, upon what other principles does a theory of bureaucratic responsibility rest? Third, what issues arise in putting responsibility into practice, especially within a complex organizational setting? This list of questions is not meant to be exhaustive but only a starting point for discussion. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Volume 20 |
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| Local note | Numbers 4-5 |
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| Title | International Journal of Public Administration - IJPA |
| Related parts | 20, 4-5, p. 1017-1036 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | New York : Marcel Dekker, 1997 |
| International Standard Serial Number | ISSN 01900692 |
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| Koha item type | Periódico |
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| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) | 1104^b |
| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) | Daiane |
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| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) | 1606^b |
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