Citing a lack of historical consciousness in the field of public and administrative organizations that leads to the potential for administrative evil, Adams and Balfour present the updated and
revised fourth edition of Unmasking Administrative Evil with the addition of a new focus on the private sector as well. They describe how “administrative evil has reappeared with a vengeance in
a country that depends on the organizations and professions that systematically reproduce it.” There are nine chapters with introduction and overview: the dynamics of evil and administrative
evil; compliance, technical rationality, and administrative evil; administrative evil unmasked: the Holocaust and public service; administrative evil masked: from Mittelbau-Dora and Peenemünde
to the Marshall Space Flight Center; organizational dynamics and administrative evil: the Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia; public policy and
administrative evil; administrative evil in the twenty-first century: Abu Ghraib, moral inversion, and torture policy; administrative evil and public ethics in praetorian times; afterword:
expiating evil and administrative evil. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
