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<p>The common characteristic of administrative evil, say Adams (public affairs, U. of Missouri-Columbia) and Balfour (public and nonprofit administration, Grand Valley State U., Michigan), is that ordinary people within their normal professional and administrative roles can engage in acts of evil without being aware that they are doing anything wrong. They update their 1998 account of the phenomenon in light of the violence of September 2001, and the resulting prolific and, they say, profligate use of the term <i>evil.</i> Annotation &copy;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</p> <h3>Booknews</h3> <p>Using the Holocaust to prove the reality of administrative evil, the authors show how evil is masked within contemporary administrative organizations. The first chapter discusses how individual, organizational, and social behaviors interact in ways that can lead to administrative evil. Subsequent chapters discuss topics such as modernity and technical rationality; the Holocaust and public administration; Mittelbau-Dora, Penem<:u>nde, and the Marshall Space Flight Center; NASA and the Space Shuttle </Challenger/>; and finding a basis for ethics in the public service. Annotation c. by Book

Author

Guy B. Adams; Danny L. Balfour

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452231525

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Social_sciences