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Citizenship and Accountability of Government

Author : Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903682616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Accountability of Government written by Mohammad Hashim Kamali and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insight into the Islamic perspective, this volume covers two subjects that have never before been discussed as separate topics in Islamic jurisprudence--citizenship and the accountability of government. Tracing the origins of the two concepts in the Qur'an, the Sunnah of the Prophet, and the practice of the first four caliphs, it follows their integration under different branches and explores the rights and obligations of Muslims in Islamic law, applying these to the modern world. Topics include: the definitions of citizenship; the rights of citizens; the duties of citizens; citizenship laws; the concepts of dar al-Islam (abode of Islam), dar al-harb (abode of war) and the dar al-'ahd (abode of treaty); the ummah and the nation-state; government as a trust; the selection of officials; the relationship between authority and citizens; corruption and the misuse of public funds; despotism and dynastic misrule; the right of complaint; the limits of obedience; impeachment of officials and heads of state; and the foundation of institutions of accountability.

Public Services Delivery

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821361405
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Public Services Delivery written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out a framework for analysing the performance of governments in developing countries, looking at the government as a whole and at local and municipal levels, and focusing on individual sectors that form the core of essential government services, such as health, education, welfare, waste disposal, and infrastructure. It draws lessons from performance measurement systems in a range of industrial countries to identify good practice around the world in improving public sector governance, combating corruption and making services work for poor people.

Citizens and Service Delivery

Author : Alaka Holla
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821389807
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Citizens and Service Delivery written by Alaka Holla and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many low and middle income countries, dismal failures in the quality of public service delivery such as absenteeism among teachers and doctors and leakages of public funds have driven the agenda for better governance and accountability. This has raised interest in the idea that citizens can contribute to improved quality of service delivery by holding policy-makers and providers of services accountable. This proposition is particularly resonant when it comes to the human development sectors health, education and social protection which involve close interactions between providers and citizens/users of services. Governments, NGOs, and donors alike have been experimenting with various social accountability tools that aim to inform citizens and communities about their rights, the standards of service delivery they should expect, and actual performance; and facilitate access to formal redress mechanisms to address service failures. The report reviews how citizens individually and collectively can influence service delivery through access to information and opportunities to use it to hold providers both frontline service providers and program managers accountable. It focuses on social accountability measures that support the use of information to increase transparency and service delivery and grievance redress mechanisms to help citizens use information to improve accountability. The report takes stock of what is known from international evidence and from within projects supported by the World Bank to identify knowledge gaps, key questions and areas for further work. It synthesizes experience to date; identifies what resources are needed to support more effective use of social accountability tools and approaches; and formulates considerations for their use in human development. The report concludes that the relationships between citizens, policy-makers, program managers, and service providers are complicated, not always direct or easily altered through a single intervention, such as an information campaign or scorecard exercise. The evidence base on social accountability mechanisms in the HD sectors is under development. There is a small but growing set of evaluations which test the impact of information interventions on service delivery and HD outcomes. There is ample space for future experiments to test how to make social accountability work at the country level.

Mobilizing for Democracy

Author : Vera Schatten Coelho
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848139152
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing for Democracy written by Vera Schatten Coelho and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.

Community Score Card

Author : United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Score Card written by United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizen Governance

Author : Richard C. Box
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452250383
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Governance written by Richard C. Box and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-12-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals in the twenty-first century. His model shifts a large part of the responsibility for local public policy from the professional and the elected official to the citizen. Citizens take part directly in creating and implementing policy, elected officials coordinate the policy process, and public professionnals facilitate citizen discourse, offering the knowledge of public practice needed for successful `citizen gover

Public Accountability

Author : Melvin J. Dubnick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780923993368
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Public Accountability written by Melvin J. Dubnick and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability

Author : Vincent L. Hutchings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225664
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability written by Vincent L. Hutchings and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability

Author : M. A. P. Bovens
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199641250
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability written by M. A. P. Bovens and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

Author : Christian Kock
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271060298
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation written by Christian Kock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. To accomplish this, the book brings together, in a cross-disciplinary effort, contributions by scholars in fields that rarely intersect. For the most part, discussions of citizenship have focused on aspects that are central to the “liberal” tradition of social thought—that is, questions of the freedoms and rights of citizens and groups. This collection gives voice to a “republican” conception of citizenship. Seeing participation and debate as central to being a citizen, this tradition looks back to the Greek city-states and republican Rome. Citizenship, in this sense of the word, is rhetorical citizenship. Rhetoric is thus at the core of being a citizen. Aside from the editors, the contributors are John Adams, Paula Cossart, Jonas Gabrielsen, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Kasper Møller Hansen, Sine Nørholm Just, Ildikó Kaposi, William Keith, Bart van Klink, Marie Lund Klujeff, Manfred Kraus, Oliver W. Lembcke, Berit von der Lippe, James McDonald, Niels Møller Nielsen, Tatiana Tatarchevskiy, Italo Testa, Georgia Warnke, Kristian Wedberg, and Stephen West.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

Author : Ewan Ferlie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019922644X
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Public Management written by Ewan Ferlie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Democratic Citizenship and Public Administration

Author : Ray C. Minor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179361749X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Citizenship and Public Administration written by Ray C. Minor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a basic understanding of democratic citizenship through use of case studies. These case studies illustrate the extent to which ordinary citizens are controlling their common future. The book provides theoretical and evidence based findings on the complexities of citizenship in a capitalistic-republican setting. It offers new theoretical frameworks on reparation and democratic citizenship.

Public Expenditure Analysis

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821361443
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Public Expenditure Analysis written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the public sector in developing countries. Provides tools of analysis for discovering equity in tax burdens as well as in public spending and judging government performance in its role in safeguarding the interests of the poor and disadvantaged. Outlines a framework for a rights-based approach to citizen empowerment - in other words, creating an institutional design with appropriate rules, restraints, and incentives to make the public sector responsive and accountable to an average voter.

Citizenship and Ethics

Author : Thomas A. Bryer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793613958
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Ethics written by Thomas A. Bryer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice, and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and ultimately the future of scholarship in public ethics and citizen engagement. This “multi-generational” approach is designed to reveal the persistent and future ongoing need to engage as a scholarly and practitioner community with these questions. The book is broken into three main sections: citizenship and neighborhood governance, public service ethics and citizenship, and global explorations of citizenship and ethics. Unique in this collection is the explicit linkage across the main focus areas of citizenship and ethics, as well as the comparative and global context in which these issues are explored. Cases and data are examined from the United States, Chile, Thailand, India, China, Georgia, and Myanmar. Ultimately, it is made clear through each individual chapter and the collective whole that research on citizenship and ethics within public affairs and service has a rich history, remains critical to the strengthening of public institutions today, and will only increase in global significance in the years ahead.

Making Politics Work for Development

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807744
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Making Politics Work for Development written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.

Citizens as Partners Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264195564
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Citizens as Partners Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a wide range of country experiences, offers examples of good practice, highlights innovative approaches and identifies promising tools (including new information technologies)for engaging citizens in policy making. It proposes a set of ten guiding principles.

Confrontational Citizenship

Author : William W. Sokoloff
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467818
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Confrontational Citizenship written by William W. Sokoloff and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability. A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and new political institutions are needed for this? In order to answer these questions, Confrontational Citizenship draws on a broad base of perspectives to articulate the concept of confrontational citizenship. William W. Sokoloff defends extra-institutional and confrontational modes of political activity along with new ways of conceiving political institutions as a way to create political orders accountable to the people. In contrast to many forms of democratic theory, Sokoloff argues that confrontational modes of citizenship (e.g., protest) are good because they increase the accountability of a regime to the people, increase the legitimacy of regimes, lead to improvements in a political order, and serve as a means to vent frustration. The goal is to make the word citizen relevant and dangerous to the settled and closed practices that structure our political world and to provide a hopeful vision of what it means to be politically progressive today.