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Book chapter
Administrative Evil
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, pp.313-317
Sringer, 2
04/06/2023
Abstract
In Unmasking Administrative Evil Adams and Balfour develop the concept of administrative evil in connection with the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II. While the evil – the pain, suffering, and death – that was inflicted on millions of Jews and others in the Holocaust was so horrific as to almost defy comprehension, it can be understood as facilitated by administrative evil. The administrative evil of the Holocaust is now unmasked (although much of it was masked at the time), and it can now be recognized as an instance of administrative evil because “the Nazis did it” and because it occurred well over 70 years ago. The Holocaust happened in a modernized society and a culture dominated by technical rationality and mainly within and by organizational roles driven by legitimated public policy. While the Holocaust was horrific and arguably without precedent in human history...
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- Title
- Administrative Evil
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Details
- Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, pp.313-317
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Sringer; Cham
- Copyright
- © © 2022 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Identifiers
- 99380579896506600
- Academic Unit
- Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English