Research Catalog

Title

Responsibility as paradox : a critique of rational discourse on government / Michael M. Harmon ; foreword by Bayard L. Catron ; sponsored by the Public Administration Theory Network and supported by Lewis and Clark College.

Author

Harmon, Michael M., 1941-

Publication

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, ©1995.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 221 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in public administration

Uniform Title

Advances in public administration

Subject

• Public administration
• Responsibility
• Political obligation
• 88.11 central government bodies
• Politische Theorie
• Verantwortlichkeit
• Verantwortung
• Verwaltung
• Openbaar bestuur
• Politieke ethiek
• Verantwoordelijkheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Bayard L. Catron -- Series Editor's Introduction / Henry D. Kass -- Three Meanings of Responsibility: Agency, Accountability, and Obligation -- A Brief History of Responsibility -- Responsibility as Agency, Accountability, and Obligation -- The Combinations of Responsibility's Meanings in Everyday Usage -- The Rationalist Conception of Responsible Government -- Rationalist Responsibility in Summary -- The Modernist Heritage of Rationalist Responsibility -- The Internal Debates Within the Rationalist Perspective -- Simon Versus Waldo -- Finer Versus Friedrich -- Burke and Cooper -- Similarities Between Modernism and Rationalist Responsibility -- Paradox and Personal Responsibility -- Redemption and the Existential Paradox -- The Privatization of the Individual -- Categories of Paradox -- The Paradoxical Character of Personal Responsibility -- The Countervailing Relation of Self-Reflexivity and Commitment to the Other -- The Paradox of Obligation -- The Problem of Political Obligation -- The Pathologies of Obligation -- Public Obligations and Private Commitments -- Reframing the Problem of Obligation -- The Paradox of Agency -- The Paradox of Agency and the Overassertion of the Individual -- The Paradox of Agency and the Overassertion of the Collectivity -- The Paradox of Accountability -- Political and Professional Responsibility -- Rationalism's Dichotomies as the Source of the Paradox -- The Contingency of "Decision" -- The Masquerade of Effectiveness and Control -- Reframing the Paradox of Accountability.

ISBN

• 0803970072
• 9780803970076
• 0803970080
• 9780803970083

LCCN

95007683

OCLC

• ocm32167933
• 32167933
• SCSB-14653905

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library