Legislators displace responsibility for war onto the executive to avoid accountability

Evidence

In a lack of moral and congressional responsibility, Congress evaded taking a vote on whether or not the nation should go to war. House Speaker John Boehner shifted the responsibility to the president, claiming that he already had the authority to do so. The House would not address the issue, he explained, unless the president requested it (Baker & Knowlton, 2014). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2470

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is a textbook illustration of Bandura’s displacement of responsibility mechanism operating at the institutional level.
• XREF: Institutional responsibility displacement parallels the vault’s authoritarianism claims about diffusion of culpability under hierarchy. — connects to: Legislatures delegate unresolved political conflicts downward to administrators.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2470