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Name Course Professor Date Report over Adams and Balfour's book Unmasking Administrative Evil Summary This book attempts to warn the society about the capacity of government institutions and agencies to cause immense pain and suffering. It acknowledges the fact that the modern day technological advances give governments a huge capacity to cause harm despite not focusing on this notion. Instead the authors of emphasizes the ever increasing propensity of today’s governments to use new technologies to bring about pain to people. The inability of public agencies and institutions to recognize the ethical considerations that are associated with using dangerous technologies is the reason why the people should worry about their governments (Adams 1998). As a result of these faults in public institutions the society lives in a new and extremely dangerous form of evil. Adams and Balfour call this evil “administrative evil”. Government institutions have various features that make It is imperative for the society to understand that forces which lead to genocides are part of the modern society thus present in public organizations. In order to ensure evil events such as the Holocaust do not take place again the society needs to approach to unmask administrative evil in a proactive manner (Huberts Jeroen Carole and John 2008). This approach will enable people to identify the various lapses in public organizations thereby coming up with measures and policies to prevent government officials from engaging in unethical behaviors through using these faults. Work Cited Adams Guy B. Unmasking Administrative Evil. Thousand Oaks u.a: Sage 1998. Print. Huberts L W Jeroen Maesschalck Carole L. Jurkiewicz and John A. Rohr. Ethics and Integrity of Governance: Perspectives Across Frontiers. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar 2008. Internet resource. Johnson Craig E. Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow. 2013. Internet resource. [...]
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The class I need this paper for is political science, The professor wans an essay that includes a concise summary and more extensive analysis of the book.
Subject Area: Public Relations
Document Type: Reports
