Centralia No. 5

Some corruption revolved around bribery, special treatment and laziness. An example of this is when the court marshals offer that put up the eviction notices bribe the cops with five dollars to break down the door and kick the residents out. Another form of bribery being accepted was when the cop accepted the money that the guy offered so that he would not get a ticket. Serpico refused all of these bribes and sought to end cop corruption. The cops fell asleep at their position when they were working overnight and would set alarms on when to call the Sergeant and when the sergeant would make their rounds to assure all the men are working. Serpico did not sleep on the job either in case he had to catch a criminal. The police officers got special treatment by the public, so they wouldn’t have to pay for meals. Serpico soon realized the different world that the police officers have in comparison to the public which are oblivious to the reality.

Imagine it is 1933, although Thomas Edison had created the light bulb more than 50 years earlier, rural areas across the country were still without power. Flash-forward eight years later, the lights are on and you can see your fellow neighbors being uprooted from their homes and communities by the military. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was a visionary leader, but he was also an unethical leader who permitted both events to occur. In this essay, the claim that FDR was a visionary leader will be supported. In particular, how he overcame tragedy, learned to empathize with Americans, and how his New Deal polices employed millions will be discussed. Afterwards, the allegation that FDR was an unethical leader will be

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” This quote by Woodrow Wilson fits perfectly with the topics that will be discussed. The major theme of this paper is bureaucracy. Bureaucracy refers to an administrative system in which agencies staffed largely by non elected officials perform specific tasks in accordance with standard procedures. The work of the bureaucracy involves implementing laws and procedures. Does this sound familiar? That is because most bureaucrats work for the executive branch of the government. The executive branch is the one that enforces the laws. Some of these law enforcing jobs include mail clerk, police officer, fireman, and first responder. These jobs are essential to our lives as Americans and are greatly appreciated. This paper will expound on the history, usage, and the Cabinet

The leadership was corrupted. The society was not able to advance on an intellectual level because no one was

“Reinventing Government” is a book that proposed solutions to fix the ‘broken’ American governance structure in the post-industrial knowledge-based age. Through pep-rally prose and virtually telling stories, the authors painted a bleak portrait of the contemporary American government. They demonstrated that the governmental bureaucracy or perestroika that existed during the industrial era and times of economic and military crisis, with their sluggishness, preoccupation with rules and regulations and hierarchical chains of command, was not appropriate for the post-industrial knowledge-based age: simply, bureaucracy had outlived its usefulness. For instance, they indicated that the increasing choice of quality goods and services in the 1960’s

O’Leary’s defines “guerrilla government” as the actions of career public servants who work against the wishes---either implicitly or explicitly communicated---of their superiors (O’Leary, 2014, pg. ).

To make things harder, “the price of food was soaring” (Boo 181). Despite offering ways out of poverty, corruption made life in a slum very difficult for many. For these people, corruption had to be fought with corruption. This often meant not following the rules or the law too

Mitchell brings to attention the two actors the principle and the agent. In the relationship between principals and agents the principal can never be certain of complete control if behavior from other bureaucracies provide a guide to the private interest of agents and their ability to hide their interests and actions from the principal contribute substantially and systematically to the human toll of the bureaucracies of repression. For some of the agents the violence may simply be a task to perform in order to achieve the leader’s goals, for others violence may be a raw end not a means. Agents can seize opportunities provided by their offices and uniforms to supply personal gratification from violence.

Most obvious is the government in Brazil’s lack of any sort of supreme leader figure, figurehead or otherwise. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Party revolves around a character created to represent their ideology: Big Brother. The heads of Brazil’s government’s departments, then, are not accountable to any central leader or idea, and as such are often in competition with each other. This drawback of the rulership-by-group system is avoided by Nineteen Eighty-Four’s INGSOC party by having all members of the Inner Party ultimately accountable to the best interests of Big Brother, and thus accountable to the best interests of the rest of the Inner Party. By this logic and by the relative ineffectiveness of the government in Brazil, one could argue that INGSOC’s system results in a more efficient government (albeit one that provides even its highest elites with far less freedom than Brazil’s

In El Salvador, a mountainous coffee-growing country of 5 million citizens was ruled by an unholy alliance of large-scale landowners and military officers. Acceleration of agriculture exports during the 1960’s led to an increased concentration of rural holdings by large-scale landowners and in turn increased the percentage of peasants who had no land at all. A reformist challenge to the status quo came through the Christian Democratic Party, under the leadership of José Duarte. As mayor of San Salvador, Duarte built strong connections with intellectuals, professionals, and other middle-class groups that if the military hadn’t interfered and imposed dictatorial rule he would have surely won the election for presidency in 1972. Fake elections in 1977 led to the installation of General Carlos Humberto Romero as president, who imposed a law to defend and guarantee public order. Duarte himself was imprisoned, tortured, and exiled but never fled to the hills. A

The government had taken on so many responsibilities that they could no longer handle every aspect of the economy. And because the range of responsibilities the government had to uphold increased, their capacity to carry out these responsibilities was severely compromised (King, 1975: 166-168). Not only that, the public’s expectations were inflated and unrealistic. People expected to see an economic boom, all the while desiring low taxes and high wages, blind to the fact that there was inflation and resources were scarce (King, 1975: 167), or shortage of supply. In the 1970s, all of these things—excessive expectations and increased responsibility of the government—challenged the authority of the government; different groups demanded

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the public interest and the administrative responsibility. Discuss some of the recent ethical obligations confronting public administrators in their day to day decision making. Also we will examine the recent trend in privatizing government functions. Finally, we will discuss if privatizing posses any type of dilemma’s for the attainment of public interest.

Q1) Explain Niskansen’s characterization of bureaucrats as budget maximizing, as well as critiques of that view, in the contexts of your home country’s bureaucracy. How have changes in the current economy and modern public management practices altered the budget behavior of bureaucrats in your home country? (300 words)

Moreover, instating the right to choose also facilitates the incentive for people to speak out against an unruly leader. When a large mass of civilians disagrees or is concerned with a party’s implementation of policies, they can extract their title from them. Just because a party is elected, does not mean that they will remain in power for the entire duration originally allotted to them. The presence of foreseeable change is crucial to a societies degree of satisfaction associated with their current governmental system. Alteration gives democracy the upper hand. For example, in Spain in 1982, when Prime Minister Leopolodo Calvo Sotelo completely terminated the party that supported what the people wanted, the people in office forcibly made him resign.

They would continue to stay employed whether they did a good job or not, because these jobs helped pay for the government’s revenue. Exhibit 10 further proves this point where the marginal retention rate steadily increased from 1982 thru 1989. In addition, this new system allowed for corruption to take place. When looking at Exhibit 10, we can see how new management was added but this only added corruption, not profits, to the enterprises, further adding to the SOE deficit. The directors looked for their personal acquaintances to negotiate business deals, involving even local officials and used the low-quality items for the state and the high-quality items for dirty business. With so much corruption taking place, it was evident why the Management Responsibility System didn’t take off.