Bureaucratic reorganization can mask continuing obstruction of accountability

Evidence

In broadening the supervisory responsibility, Mahony created advisory and oversight boards to superintend the protection of children. However, resistance to litigation over the release of church documents continued. The archdiocese was accused of withholding many documents and removing the names of church officials who had supervisory responsibility (Goodstein & Medina, 2013). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 526

Categorization

• XREF: Catalog pattern: visible institutional repair coexisting with continued concealment, much as pipeline incidents elsewhere show. — connects to: Bureaucrats absorb blame for system-level failures they did not decide. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1325; Bureaucratic inertia and lax enforcement can quietly sabotage reform from within — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 359; Bureaucratic consolidation language masqueraded reform as accountability while enabling concentrated power — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 457