A civil servant in the Pentagon blows the whistle on the Defense
Department by leaking to the press stories of gross overspending. A
high-level official in the Environmental Protection Agency publicly
reports irregularities in the handling of toxic waste cleanup and
the agency's head is forced to resign. The Energy Department fines
oil companies for overcharging consumers; does an official overstep
his bounds in ordering that the money be distributed to help the
poor and elderly pay their heating bills?
How much do bureaucrats know? And how much should they tell? In
"Bureaucratic Responsibility," John Burke moves from case study to
theory to explore what is perhaps the most basic problem
confronting modern democracy: How are we to make those
bureaucracies upon which government relies both accountable and
responsive? Responsibility, Burke contends, must not be primarily
to the formally defined terms and obligations of a particular
office, but to the institutions of American democracy and the
public consent. "Bureaucratic Responsibility" is a provocative
combination of descriptive analysis, political theory, and
prescriptive speculation-- and makes a timely case for a more
responsible bureaucracy.
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