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Administrative responsibility

Here are entered works on the personal liability of government officials to the state or to individuals for wrongful acts committed in office. Works on the liability of the state for wrongful acts of officials are entered under Government liability. Works on criminal offenses committed by government officials in the performance of their duties are entered under Misconduct in office. Works on offenses against professional ethics or against discipline are entered under names of countries, cities, government departments, etc. with subdivision Officials and employees -- Discipline. Works on specific offenses are entered under the name of the offense, e.g. Bribery.

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• Administrative law
• Liability (Law)

• Administrative responsibility -- Germany
• Government liability
• Impeachments
• Misconduct in office

• Administrative responsibility -- Law and legislation
• Personal liability of public employees
• Responsibility, Administrative
• Tort liability of public employees

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• The German Civil Service Act (Chicago: Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, 1938), by James K. Pollock and Alfred V. Boerner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides With the States (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by John T. Noonan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008), by Leslie Lytle (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)

• Police Brutality: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 20 and April 17, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of W. W. Holden, by W. W. Holden (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment: Report by the Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary (2019), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (PDF with commentary at house.gov)
• Impeachment: Selected Materials (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump (2019), ed. by Digital Public Library of America (HTML and Epub at dp.la)
• Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment: Report by the Staff of the Impeachment Inquiry, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1974), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at washingtonpost.com
• Impeachment: Selected Materials on Procedure (Washington: GPO, 1974), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impeachment: Selected Materials (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and His Trial by the Senate, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Office, 1868, by Edmund G. Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of W. W. Holden, by W. W. Holden (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Documents on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (New York: Macmillan, 1912), ed. by Charles A. Beard and Birl E. Shultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Government by All the People: or, The Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall as Instruments of Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by Delos F. Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure Democracy, Direct Nominations, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall and the New York State Court of Appeals' Decision in the Workmen's Compensation Case (Lyons, NY: Lyons Republican Co., 1912), by Charles H. Betts, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Operation of the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall in Oregon (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by James D. Barnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors (3 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1868), ed. by Benjamin Perley Poore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1913), ed. by William Bennett Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Dangers to Majority Rule: Address by Judson King before the Political Science Club of the University of Washington, March 6, 1912 (Washington: GPO, 1912), by Judson King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Oregon System at Work (reprinted from National Municipal Review, 1914), by Richard Ward Montague (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Direct Elections and Law-Making by Popular Vote: The Initiative, the Referendum, the Recall, Commission Government for Cities, Preferential Voting (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Edwin M. Bacon and Morrill Wyman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (originally published 2001; this edition c2013), ed. by Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (originally published 2001; this edition c2013), ed. by Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Police Code of Silence in Times of Change (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2022), by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskaly, Ahmet Kule, and M. R. Haberfeld (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Police Code of Silence in Times of Change (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2022), by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskaly, Ahmet Kule, and M. R. Haberfeld (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (originally published 2001; this edition c2013), ed. by Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Quest for Political Integrity (2005), by Coalitia pentru un Parlament Curat (Romania) (PDF in Romania)

• Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report, Together With Minority Views (Washington: GPO, 2019), by United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War (2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary Democratic Staff (HTML and PDF files at house.gov)
• The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump (2019), ed. by Digital Public Library of America (HTML and Epub at dp.la)
• A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election (redacted public release; 2018), by United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (PDF at justice.gov)
• Nomination of John G. Tower to be Secretary of Defense: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on Nomination of John G. Tower to be Secretary of Defense, January 25, 26, 31; February 1, 23, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1989), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• USA, The World is Watching: Mass Violations by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters' Rights (2020), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)
• Police Brutality: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 20 and April 17, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Streets of America: Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson (2014), by Amnesty International (illustrated HTML and PDF at amnestyusa.org)
• Revisiting "Who Is Guarding the Guardians?": A Report on Police Practices and Civil Rights in America (2000), by United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at usccr.gov
• Who Is Guarding the Guardians? A Report on Police Practices (1981), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Police Brutality: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 20 and April 17, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress, and a Plan to Stop It (New York and Boston: Twelve, c2011), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF at lessig.org)
• Failure of the Public Trust, by John H. Clarke, Patrick J. Knowlton, and Hugh Turley (PDF and partial HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)
• The Shame of The Cities (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Lincoln Steffens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Police Code of Silence in Times of Change (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2022), by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskaly, Ahmet Kule, and M. R. Haberfeld (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What's the Matter with New York: A National Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Norman Thomas and Paul Blanshard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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