State Autonomy and Democratic Accountability
Author : Gregory Eugene McAvoy
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Gregory Eugene McAvoy
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Johan P. Olsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198800606
This volume examines the theorization of democratic accountability and what accountability processes tell us about political order and orderly change.
Author : Andreas Schedler
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781555877743
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.
Author : Craig T. Borowiak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199778493
Few political concepts are as emblematic of our era as democratic accountability. In a time of political and economic turmoil, in which global forces have destabilized conventional relations of political authority, democratic accountability has come to symbolize both what is absent and what is desired in our polity. Situated at the intersection of democratic theory and international studies, Accountability and Democracy provides an in-depth critical analysis of accountability. Through an engagement with several key democratic traditions, both ancient and modern, the book paints a rich picture of democratic accountability as a multi-dimensional concept harboring competing imperatives and diverse instantiations. Contrary to dominant views that emphasize discipline and control, Craig Borowiak offers an original and refreshing view of democratic accountability as a source of mutuality, participation, and political transformation. He both creatively engages conventional electoral models of accountability and moves beyond them by situating democratic accountability within more deliberative, participatory and agonistic contexts. Provocatively, the book also challenges deep-seated understandings of democratic accountability as an expression of popular sovereignty. Borowiak instead argues that accountable governance is incompatible with all claims to ultimate authority, regardless of whether they refer to the demos, the state, or cosmopolitan public law. Rather than conceiving of democratic accountability as a way to legitimize a secure and sovereign political order, the book contends that destabilization and democratic insurgence are indispensable and often neglected facets of democratic accountability practices. For contemporary scholars, practitioners and activists grappling with the challenge of building democratic legitimacy into world politics, the book urges greater reflexivity and nuance in how democratic accountability is evoked and implemented. It offers insights into the myriad ways democratic accountability has been thwarted in the past, while also cultivating a sense of expanded possibility for how it might be conceived for the present.
Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108427782
Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.
Author : Francesco Palermo
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004274510
Accounting for participation, separation of powers and democratic accountability, federalism gains momentum in times when traditional democratic legitimacy of institutional decision-making is challenged. Its ability to include multiple interests makes federalism a means to ensure good governance. Based on a multidisciplinary analysis, the book tackles the question of whether federalism as a pragmatic governance tool provides answers to current challenges and what those answers are. Thirty-three leading experts critically examine to what extent federalism serves this purpose in compound states, looking at different countries and policies. The volume revolves around five sub-themes: ‘federalism, democracy and governance’, ‘participation mechanisms and procedures’, ‘policy areas compared’, ‘institutional innovation and participatory democracy’ and ‘federalism: from theory to governance’.
Author : Christopher Shortell
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government liability
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Author : Steven Rogers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226827223
A troubling portrait of democracy in US state legislatures. State legislatures hold tremendous authority over key facets of our lives, ranging from healthcare to marriage to immigration policy. In theory, elections create incentives for state legislators to produce good policies. But do they? Drawing on wide-ranging quantitative and qualitative evidence, Steven Rogers offers the most comprehensive assessment of this question to date, testing different potential mechanisms of accountability. His findings are sobering: almost ninety percent of American voters do not know who their state legislator is; over one-third of incumbent legislators run unchallenged in both primary and general elections; and election outcomes have little relationship with legislators’ own behavior. Rogers’s analysis of state legislatures highlights the costs of our highly nationalized politics, challenging theories of democratic accountability and providing a troubling picture of democracy in the states.
Author : Lily L. Tsai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139466488
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.
Author : A. Bianculli
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349467969
This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance