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Public Accountability
By
Michael W. Dowdle
Description
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.
• Adopts an
interdisciplinary approach, looking at legal, political science,
public administration, sociology and philosophy issues • Takes
on an international perspective allowing a better understanding of
the global implications and dimensions of public accountability
issues and problems • Offers an integrated approach throughout
the chapters, allowing a better understanding of the commonalities
that link what are often treated as distinct and insular issues and
experiences
Contents
Introduction:
accountability and method: 1. Public accountability: conceptual,
historical and epistemic mappings Michael W. Dowdle; Part I.
Accountability and the State: 2. Accountability and responsibility
through restorative justice John Braithwaite; 3. The myth of
non-bureaucratic accountability and the anti-administrative impulse
Edward Rubin; 4. Extending public accountability through
privatization from public law to publicization Jody Freeman; Part II.
Accountability and Design: 5. Accountability and institutional
design: some thoughts on the grammar of governance Jerry L. Mashaw;
6. Emerging labor movements and the accountability dilemma: the case
of Indonesia Michele Ford; 7. Spontaneous accountability Colin Scott;
Part III. Accountability and Participation: 8. Accounting for
accountability in neoliberal regulatory regimes Christine Harrington
and Z. Umut Turem; 9. The mark of responsibility (with a postscript
on accountability) John Gardner; 10. Technocratic vs. convivial
accountability Bronwen Morgan; Part IV. Accountability and
Experience: 11. Understanding NGO-based social and environmental
regulatory systems: why we need new models of accountability Sasha
Courville; 12. Problem-solving courts and the judicial accountability
deficit Michael Dorf; 13. Public accountability in ailen terrain:
exploring for constitutional accountability in the People\\\'s Republic
of China Michael Dowdle.
Contributors
Michael W. Dowdle,
John Braithwaite, Edward Rubin, Jody Freeman, Jerry L. Mashaw,
Michele Ford, Colin Scott, Christine Harrington, Z. Umut Turem, John
Gardner, Bronwen Morgan, Sasha Courville, Michael Dorf
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