Essays on Administrative Evil

The case of the von Braun team of German rocket scientists who came to the United States at the end of World War II illuminates the idea of administrative evil. It is incredible that half of the team were individuals who were Nazis in Germany. Individual who were at the core of the United States space missions in the 1960s had ties to the evil Nazi regime. One of the core members of the von Braun team was a key decision maker at the Mittel Dora slave labor concentration camp. The text notes that about a dozen of individuals ...

Since the beginning of humankind, evil has always been abhorred. All cultures and societies identify what they view as good and what they consider evil. The notion of right and wrong is relative according to different groups of people. Nonetheless, some actions and behaviors are universally evil according to all communities. Such actions are the likes of stealing or killing. When evil gets committed by individuals or groups of people, communities and clans usually give punishments whose severity depends on the seriousness of the act. The role of discipline is and has always been aimed at deterring the offender ...

Kate McGovern. “The Promise of Administrative Conservatorship vs. The Threat of Administrative Evil in the Mission of Public Service.”

The argument being addressed by this article relates to how easily leaders can succumb to unethical behavior as a result of the success. It further goes on to show how the theory of administrative conservatorship may be used to address such challenges, which the leaders in public administration face. In order to show how the theory of administrative conservatorship is applied in tackling ethical issues the author addresses several issues such whether morality is relative for leaders, administrative evil and moral inversion. Consequently, the author provides the role of conservator in the theory of conservatorship on how to address the ...