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THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2021

Mario I. Juarez-Garcia  and
David Schmidtz
Mario I. Juarez-Garcia
Affiliation:
Philosophy, University of San Diego, USA
David Schmidtz
Affiliation:
Philosophy, University of Arizona, USA
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Abstract

There has always been a tension, in theory, between the public accountability and the professional efficiency of the agencies of the administrative state. How has that tension been handled? What would it be like for it to be well handled?

Keywords

administrative stateexpertsgovernanceincentivesunexpected consequences
Type
Research Article
Information
Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , Summer 2021 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
© 2021 Social Philosophy & Policy Foundation. Printed in the USA

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Footnotes

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Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego, marioivanjuarez@email.arizona.edu; Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, schmidtz@email.arizona.edu. We are grateful to Fred Miller, Sarah Raskoff, Tammi Sharp, Ronald Pestritto, and all the authors for their many, various, and cheerful contributions to the production of this volume. We likewise thank Stevie Eller for her steadfast support of this and many other projects over the past several years.

References

1 There are so-called experts who claim on websites to have accurately predicted the last ten recessions, and it turns out that they really did, too. Yet, it takes something away from their seemingly stellar record to learn that they predicted recession at least once every month over that same time span. Are they experts?

2 If we are to believe Abramoff, he ultimately came to view himself as a disgrace, and as a criminal who deserved to be in jail, yet he did not always see himself that way. Indeed, at one time Abramoff believed he was one of the good guys. Part of the price of hubris and of corruption is that people can lose touch with what honesty and decency would even be like. They get caught when they no longer remember what they are supposed to be faking. See the CBS 60 Minutes segment on Jack Abramoff, entitled “The Lobbyist’s Playbook.” https://www.indianz.com/News/2011/11/07/60-minutes-transcript-of-jack.asp