A WINK AND A NOD: A CONCEPTUAL MAP OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS

SCHAFER, ARTHUR

CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, n.º 1/1999, pág. 5

1. Begin and boyle. 2. Role responsibility vs. personal responsibility. a) Role responsibilities. b) Theweberian model of diffused responsibility. c) Absoluteliability. d) The buck stops here. e) Personal responsibility and blameworthiness. f) The problem ofdiffused responsibility, again: I'm only a "cog in thewheel". g) The plea of "reasonable reliance" on subordinates. h) Ignorance as an excuse. i) Self-inducedignorance. j) Information filtration. k) Possible corrective measures. l) Ignorance: a mitigating or an aggravatingfactor? m) "A wink and a nod". n) The responsibility tomonitor compliance.