官僚制의 責任性과 責務性의 槪念定立에 관한 硏究 = On the Concepts of Responsibility and Accountability in a Bureaucracy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper has attempted to give a concrete form to the concepts of responsibility and accountability to develop appropriate mechanisms for securing responsibile and accountability government. In the first, responsibility is that of explicability. A person's conduct is responsibile if it is susceptible to rational explanation and, furthermore, if it is conditioned upon an attempt to obtain the relevant facts, upon deliberation, and upon consideration of, and due regard for, the consequences. The second meaning of responsibility means accountability in the sense of answerability. Accountability is called a means for responsibility.
Given the increasing responsibility of the modern administrative state, there is a concurrent need for increasing its public accountability through a wider range of both internal and external controls. Even if ways are found to make the public accountability of public officials more effective, there are likely to arise even more profoundly intractable conflicts because various different concepts of accountability conflict, and because the different bodies to which public officials are responsible conflict. Such conflicts are true of responsibility. Thus this paper tries to show a solution to the complex nature of holding individual officials responsible and accountable in a modern state.
In addition, how can responsible and accountable administration be achieved? First, this paper insistes that the public must show courage and accept the sacrifices necessary to protect responsibility and accountability. In fact, there is so little treatment of the idea of the public in public administration. Although there are no generally agreed-on theories of the public, there are perspectives. So this paper argues that contrasting and contradictory notions of the public are the real source of differences in perspectives as to how best to study or practice public administration. And also, every effort should be made to ensure that elected representatives and responsible public servants are held accountable for the proper conduct of their tasks. Of course, the capacity of a nation's political system to prevent, detect, punish and control the abuse of power and authority will have a direct bearing on the legitimacy of a regime and will no doubt to strengthen the moral basis of its governing authority. Then Accountability for and responsibility in holding public office can then be expected from our public servants.
Finally, this paper raises several questions and has full discussions on the subjects. Do we have clear standards and requisites of performance for our public servants? To what extent do governments have limitations to implement responsibility and accountability? To what extent do political leaders interfere with bureaucracy for the promotion and protection of responsible administration? What should we do to improve bureaucratic responsibility and accountability? Why do we need the balance between responsibility and accountability?

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序論
• Ⅱ. 責任性(Responsibility)의 槪念
• Ⅲ. 責任性(Accountability)의 槪念
• Ⅳ. 責任性과 大衆
• Ⅴ. 責任性과 責務性과의 關係
• Ⅵ. 責任性 및 責務性의 限界
• Ⅶ. 責任있는 行政의 構成要素