ABSTRACT
This chapter examines informal controls, where the administrator's or employee's value premises come from that are not supplied by the formal accountability procedures. It focuses on those influences that appear to be the most important in supplying the value premises of decision. Formal controls are of primary importance as channels through which political power can bear upon administration, and can, by setting the conditions of survival, force adaptation of political programs to the values of the holders of power. Where the formal channels of responsibility correspond to the structure of powerful and important political groups, these channels become significant parts of the mechanism of accountability. The agency tends to recruit and retain personnel in terms of their acceptance of the philosophy, and to subject its members to continual indoctrination in its values. Self-identification with the power of the omnipotent state may provide a deep source of satisfaction to the paranoic personality.
