94 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
due process and fair treatment as well as constitutional rights guaranteed through
the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment. is focus in large part mirrors the
neutral competence approach; accountability to the Constitution and regime values
is ensured through the hierarchical system of authority and control that answers
to the three powers of government. In what has been called a Burkean approach to
administration, after the eighteenth century political philosopher, Bureaucrats
must “accept that their discretion, like the discretion of citizens in general, be gov-
erned by rules and procedures and informed and constrained by a respect for past
practice and tradition” (Haque and Spicer 1997, 94).
In this way, ...