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DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development
Author | : OECD |
Publsiher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789264183636 |
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There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.
Democracy Accountability and Representation
Author | : Adam Przeworski,Susan C. Stokes,Bernard Manin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1999-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521646162 |
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6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson
Holding Power to Account
Author | : R. Mulgan |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2003-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781403943835 |
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This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as other 'Westminster' countries. Major topics discussed include the contrast between accountability in the public and private sectors, the effects of public management reforms on accountability, accountability for collective actions, accountability in networks and the limits of accountability.
Rethinking Democratic Accountability
Author | : Robert D. Behn |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004-05-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815798105 |
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Traditionally, American government has created detailed, formal procedures to ensure that its agencies and employees are accountable for finances and fairness. Now in the interest of improved performance, we are asking our front-line workers to be more responsive, we are urging our middle managers to be innovative, and we are exhorting our public executives to be entrepreneurial. Yet what is the theory of democratic accountability that empowers public employees to exercise such discretion while still ensuring that we remain a government of laws? How can government be responsive to the needs of individual citizens and still remain accountable to the entire polity? In Rethinking Democratic Accountability, Robert D. Behn examines the ambiguities, contradictions, and inadequacies in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance. Weaving wry observations with political theory, Behn suggests a new model of accountability—with "compacts of collective, mutual responsibility"—to address new paradigms for public management.
Democratic Accountability
Author | : Leif Lewin,Johan Skytte Professor of Eloquence and Government Leif Lewin |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674024755 |
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It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines the actions of national leaders; the bureaucracy sabotages their intentions; bad outcomes are often the unintended result of actions. In Democratic Accountability, Leif Lewin examines these reasons and argues that they are unconvincing. He makes his case by describing and analyzing counterexamples in seven cases, including the prevention of a communist takeover in Europe after World War II, the European Union's preventing another European war, and Margaret Thatcher's taming of the bureaucracy in Britain. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, in fact, not only do political leaders exert a good measure of control and therefore can be assigned responsibility, but the meaning of the functioning democracy is that the people hold their leaders accountable.
The Self restraining State
Author | : Andreas Schedler,Larry Jay Diamond,Marc F. Plattner |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1555877745 |
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This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.
The Accountability of Expertise
Author | : Erik Oddvar Eriksen |
Publsiher | : Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Conflict management |
ISBN | : 1032007605 |
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Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe, this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy. It addresses the challenge of reconciling modern governments' need for knowledge with the demand for democratic legitimacy. Knowledge-based decision-making is indispensable to modern democracies. This book establishes a public reason model of legitimacy and clarifies the conditions under which unelected bodies can be deemed legitimate as they are called upon to handle pandemics, financial crises, climate change and migration flows. Expert bodies are seeking neither re-election nor popularity, they can speak truth to power as well as to the citizenry at large. They are unelected, yet they wield power. How could they possibly be legitimate? This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, governance, and more broadly to political and administrative science as well as the Science Technology Studies (STS).
Accountability without Democracy
Author | : Lily L. Tsai |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2007-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781139466486 |
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Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in rural China. In authoritarian and transitional systems, formal institutions for holding government officials accountable are often weak. The state often lacks sufficient resources to monitor its officials closely, and citizens are limited in their power to elect officials they believe will perform well and to remove them when they do not. The answer, Lily L. Tsai found, lies in a community's social institutions. Even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.