Unmasking Administrative Evil

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview 1. The Dynamics of Evil and Administrative Evil 2. Compliance, Technical Rationality, and Administrative Evil 3. Administrative Evil Unmasked: The Holocaust and Public Service 4. Administrative Evil Masked: From Mittelbau-Dora and Peenemunde to the Marshall Space Flight Center 5. Organizational Dynamics and Administrative Evil: The Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, and the Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia 6. Public Policy and Administrative Evil 7. Administrative Evil in the Twenty-First Century: Abu Ghraib, Moral Inversion, and Torture Policy 8. Administrative Evil and Public Ethics in Praetorian Times 9. Afterword: Expiating Evil and Administrative Evil Appendix A. Foreword to the Third Edition, Philip G. Zimbardo Appendix B. Foreword to the Second Edition, Charles B. Perrow Appendix C. Foreword to the First Edition, Curtis Ventriss References Index About the Authors