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The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351800825
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State written by Matthew Flinders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: In this compelling work, Matthew Flinders examines how far alternative forms of accountability have evolved and the extent to which they remedy the current shortcomings of the parliamentary system. Adopting a pluralistic perspective, this exploration of the accountability of the core executive is clearly grounded in research methodology, thus ensuring the book makes a valid, incisive contribution to the literature. Features include: - A detailed study of the location of power and mechanisms of accountability in modern government which challenges the largely prosaic existing literature - Useful summaries of the key tensions and trends within constitutional infrastructure - A new and refreshing approach to the study of central government - Insightful critiques of major governmental policies This intriguing volume will be of interest to undergraduates, post-graduates and lecturers for courses on legislative studies, central government reform, public administration, British politics and research methods.

The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State

Author : Matthew V. Flinders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State written by Matthew V. Flinders and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Accountability State

Author : Nadia Hilliard
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700623981
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Accountability State written by Nadia Hilliard and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public accountability is critical to a democracy. But as government becomes ever more complex, with bureaucracy growing ever deeper and wider, how can these multiplying numbers of unelected bureaucrats be held accountable? The answer, more often than not, comes in the form of inspectors general, monitors largely independent of the management of the agencies to which they are attached. How, and whether, this system works in America is what Nadia Hilliard investigates in The Accountability State. Exploring the significance of our current collective obsession with accountability, her book helpfully shifts the issue from the technical domain of public administration to the context of American political development. Inspectors general, though longtime fixtures of government and the military, first came into prominence in the United States in the 1970s in the wake of evidence of wrongdoing in the Nixon administration. Their number and importance has only increased in tandem with concerns about abuses of power and simple inefficiency in expanding government agencies. Some of the IGs Hilliard examines serve agencies chiefly vulnerable to fraud and waste, while others, such as national security IGs, monitor the management of potentially rights-threatening activities. By some conventional measures, IGs are largely successful, whether in savings, prosecutions, suspensions, disbarments, or exposure of legally or ethically questionable activities. However, her work reveals that these measures fail to do justice to the range of effects that IGs can have on American democracy, and offers a new framework with which to evaluate and understand them. Within her larger study, Hilliard looks specifically at inspectors general in the US Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security and asks why their effectiveness varies as much as it does, with the IGs at Justice and Homeland Security proving far more successful than the IG at State.

Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa

Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128736
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa written by Wale Adebanwi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability. The book enters conversations about political subjectivity and agency, especially from ongoing struggles around identities and belonging, as well as representation and legitimacy. Who speaks to whom? And on whose behalf do they speak? The contributors to this volume offer careful analyses of how such concerns are embedded in wider forms of cultural, social, and institutional discussions about transparency, collective responsibility, community, and public decision-making processes. These concerns affect prospects for democratic oversight, as well as questions of alienation, exclusivity, privilege and democratic deficit. The book situates our understanding of the emergence, meaning, and conceptual relevance of elite accountability, to study political practices in Africa. It then juxtaposes this contextualization of accountability in relation to the practices of African elites. Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa offers fresh, dynamic, and multifarious accounts of elites and their practices of accountability and locally plausible self-legitimation, as well as illuminating accounts of contemporary African elites in relation to their socially and historicallysituated outcomes of contingency, composition, negotiation, and compromise.

Holding Power to Account

Author : R. Mulgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403943834
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Holding Power to Account written by R. Mulgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Legislative Voting and Accountability

Author : John M. Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139476793
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Voting and Accountability written by John M. Carey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators – at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. It illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance. In addition to quantitative analysis of voting patterns, the book draws on extensive field and archival research to provide an extensive assessment of legislative transparency throughout the Americas.

The Cambridge Companion to Public Law

Author : Mark Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029759
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Public Law written by Mark Elliott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and accessible examination of key themes, debates and issues in contemporary public law by leading authorities on the subject.

The Origins of Political Order

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652816
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Political Order written by Francis Fukuyama and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.

Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability

Author : Peter Newell
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842775554
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability written by Peter Newell and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples drawn from a wide range of economic and industrial sectors, and from both South and North, this title presents a topical exploration of struggles for accountability in development projects.

Multilevel Democracy

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427782
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Multilevel Democracy written by Jefferey M. Sellers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Public Administration and the Modern State

Author : J. Lehrke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437499
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration and the Modern State written by J. Lehrke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.

Accountability and the Law

Author : Piotr Mikuli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000424677
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Accountability and the Law written by Piotr Mikuli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies. The authors deal with various problems connected to controlling public institutions and incumbents’ responsibility in state bodies. The work is divided into three parts. Part I: Law examines the institutional and objective approach. Part II: Fairness and Rights considers the subject approach, referring to a recipient of rights. Part III: Authority looks at the functional approach, referring to the executors of law. Providing insights into increasing understanding of various concepts, principles, and institutions characteristic of the modern state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the area of comparative constitutional change. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics.

Accountability without Democracy

Author : Lily L. Tsai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139466488
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Accountability without Democracy written by Lily L. Tsai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264183639
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bureaucracy and Democracy

Author : Steven J. Balla
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506348890
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Democracy written by Steven J. Balla and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values.

Political Accountability

Author : Antonino Palumbo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351910426
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Political Accountability written by Antonino Palumbo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political accountability forms a cornerstone of modern democracy: it directs the political system towards the public interest and allows the exercise of the principles of autonomy and self-determination that lie at the core of democratic politics. Sadly, existing democracies, with their large, centralized bureaucracies, have evolved in ways that progressively undermine the ability of citizens to keep their representatives accountable and political regimes responsive. Far from reversing this trend, the neoliberal reforms introduced since the 1980s have increased that accountability gap. Globalization and the alleged passage from 'government' to 'governance' have aggravated the problem further. The notion of accountability that survives these changes is a problematic form of auditing carried out by a constellation of quangos, autonomous agencies and NGOs whose own accountability is problematic. This volume collects the main contributions to current debates on political accountability. It explores the challenges traditional conventions of accountability face today at the domestic, trans- and international levels and indicates the distinctive solutions those challenges require.

Political Order and Political Decay

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944323
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Political Order and Political Decay written by Francis Fukuyama and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.