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Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability
Author | : Vincent L. Hutchings |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780691225661 |
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Much of public opinion research over the past several decades suggests that the American voters are woefully uninformed about politics and thus unable to fulfill their democratic obligations. Arguing that this perception is faulty, Vincent Hutchings shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are surprisingly well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. Though Hutchings is not the first political scientist to contend that the American public is more politically engaged than it is often given credit for, previous scholarship--which has typically examined individual and environmental factors in isolation--has produced only limited evidence of an attentive electorate. Analyzing broad survey data as well as the content of numerous Senate and gubernatorial campaigns involving such issues as race, labor, abortion, and defense, Hutchings demonstrates that voters are politically engaged when politicians and the media discuss the issues that the voters perceive as important. Hutchings finds that the media--while far from ideal--do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives and that groups of voters do monitor this information when "their" issues receive attention. Thus, while the electorate may be generally uninformed about and uninterested in public policy, a complex interaction of individual motivation, group identification, and political circumstance leads citizens concerned about particular issues to obtain knowledge about their political leaders and use that information at the ballot box.
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
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.
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.
Patrons Clients and Policies
Author | : Herbert Kitschelt,Steven I. Wilkinson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521865050 |
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A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law
Author | : Charlotte Ku,Harold K. Jacobson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2003-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0521002079 |
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Democratic Accountability
Author | : Leif Lewin |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674024753 |
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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.
Democratic Accountability Political Order and Change
Author | : Johan P. Olsen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780198800606 |
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This volume examines the theorization of democratic accountability and what accountability processes tell us about political order and orderly change.