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Responsibility and Accountability
Instructions:
Choose any two questions to answer in a well-constructed paragraph (3-7) sentences per question.
Please type your answers (single spaced is fine) and bring a hard copy of them to class to turn in.
- What do you think of Rohr’s argument that the Constitution should serve as the ethical basis for bureaucrats? Does Rohr’s suggestion “solve†the problem of bureaucratic discretion in a democracy?
- What do you think are some key examples of American “regime values?†Should these values guide bureaucrats’ behavior, or should other values (such as “efficiencyâ€)? Discuss.
- What is “administrative evil†and why is it a problem?
- Adams and Balfour describe two different versions of/scenarios for public ethics (PDF pp. 6-10): a “liberalism of fear†and “deliberative democracy.†Which paradigm do you find more feasible and why?