خلاصه ماشینی:
Administrative Responsibility: An Islamic Perspective Abdel Rahman Ahmed Abdel Rahman Public bureaucracies, a general term including government agencies and departments in the areas of public utilities, social services, regulatory services, security, and law enforcement, are indispensable to our welfare; we need them for the provision of these basic services.
497 / 498 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 13:4 The principal contention of this paper is that success in making bureaucrats responsible or responsive depends on whether or not they have sufficiently strong motivation to serve the public.
One school of thought relies entirely on putting external checks on the administrators, while the other advocates giving bureaucrats discretionary power and relies on factors within the bureaucracy itself to ensure responsible administrative behavior.
18 Bureaucrats may not represent the social groups from which they are recruited; they may, it is argued, represent the bureaucracy 502 Abdel Rahman: Administrative Responsibility 503 itself or the professional groups to which they belong.
507 / 508 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 13:4 Ihsan also leads to selflessness, which commits an individual to care for others and, thereby, enhances his/her sense of responsibility or duty to them.
What all this implies is that the pursuit of il,lsiin by administrators ought to strengthen their sense of responsibility to serve the public and their desire to refrain from committing bureaucratic evils.
The arrangements discussed below comprise the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government, mazalim courts, and formal institutions to guard against and prevent administrative secrecy.