John P. Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 and author of Bureaucratic Responsibility, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Bureaucratic Responsibility I: External Control?Chapter 2. Bureaucratic Responsibility II: An Inner Sense of Duty?Chapter 3. A Democratic Alternative and Its First PrincipleChapter 4. The Second Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy FormationChapter 5. The Third Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy ImplementationChapter 6. Harm, Social Justice, and the Scope of Bureaucratic InterventionChapter 7. Hard Cases, Principles, and the Problem of RightsChapter 8. Incorporating Professional ExpertiseChapter 9. Dirty Hands. Moral Duty versus Political ObligationChapter 10. Lying and Leaking InformationChapter 11. The Place of Individual and Group Participation ConclusionNotesIndex

Grounded chiefly in moral philosophy and political theory, the work seeks a joining of politics and administration in a theoretically informed and defensible manner... A work that warrants careful reading and serious reflection. American Political Science Review

John P. Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 and author of Bureaucratic Responsibility, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Bureaucratic Responsibility I: External Control?Chapter 2. Bureaucratic Responsibility II: An Inner Sense of Duty?Chapter 3. A Democratic Alternative and Its First PrincipleChapter 4. The Second Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy FormationChapter 5. The Third Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy ImplementationChapter 6. Harm, Social Justice, and the Scope of Bureaucratic InterventionChapter 7. Hard Cases, Principles, and the Problem of RightsChapter 8. Incorporating Professional ExpertiseChapter 9. Dirty Hands. Moral Duty versus Political ObligationChapter 10. Lying and Leaking InformationChapter 11. The Place of Individual and Group Participation ConclusionNotesIndex

Grounded chiefly in moral philosophy and political theory, the work seeks a joining of politics and administration in a theoretically informed and defensible manner... A work that warrants careful reading and serious reflection. American Political Science Review

John P. Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 and author of Bureaucratic Responsibility, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Bureaucratic Responsibility I: External Control?Chapter 2. Bureaucratic Responsibility II: An Inner Sense of Duty?Chapter 3. A Democratic Alternative and Its First PrincipleChapter 4. The Second Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy FormationChapter 5. The Third Principle. The Responsible Bureaucrat and Policy ImplementationChapter 6. Harm, Social Justice, and the Scope of Bureaucratic InterventionChapter 7. Hard Cases, Principles, and the Problem of RightsChapter 8. Incorporating Professional ExpertiseChapter 9. Dirty Hands. Moral Duty versus Political ObligationChapter 10. Lying and Leaking InformationChapter 11. The Place of Individual and Group Participation ConclusionNotesIndex

Grounded chiefly in moral philosophy and political theory, the work seeks a joining of politics and administration in a theoretically informed and defensible manner... A work that warrants careful reading and serious reflection. American Political Science Review