Public accountability : designs, dilemmas and experiences

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Author:

Dowdle, Michael D.

ISBN:

9780521852142

9780521617611

Publication Information:

Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xvii, 455 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Series Title:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Contents:

Public accountability : conceptual, historical, and epistemic mappings / Accountability and responsibility through restorative justice / The myth of non-bureaucratic accountability and the anti-administrative impulse / Extending public accountability through privatization : from public law to publicization / Accountability and institutional design : some thoughts on the grammar of governance / Emerging labor movements and the accountability dilemma : the case of Indonesia / Spontaneous accountability / Accounting for accountability in neoliberal regulatory regimes / The mark of responsibility (with a postscript on accountability) / Technocratic V. convivial accountability / Understanding NGO-based social and environmental regulatory systems : why we need new models of accountability / Problem-solving courts and the judicial accountability deficit / Public accountability in alien terrain : exploring for constitutional accountability in the People's Republic of China

Subject Term:

Administrative responsibility.

Added Author:

Dowdle, Michael D.

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There is an ongoing perception that public accountability in modern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization and the increasing power of private economic interests. This book responds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey to date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account, and the various problems they face. The book shows how key issues, such as public-mindedness, democracy and responsibility, and structures, such as bureaucracy, markets and transparency, adopt radically different and sometimes contradictory interpretations when viewed from different experiential perspectives. It also demonstrates how underlying all this are core communities of experiences that bind these diverse interpretations and perspectives into a complex web of mutual interaction and influence. The book includes studies not only of Anglo-American experiences, but also of the experiences of foreign and transnational organizations: NGOs, transnational resistance movements, the Indonesian labor movement, and the Chinese Parliament.