Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance

ISBN-13: 9781108978231 / Angielski

Yannis Papadopoulos

Opis

This Element assesses the effectiveness of vertical accountability through elections and how interinstitutional accountability operates in checks-and-balances systems, along with the growing role of the courts. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: an interactionist view of accountability; 2. The crucial role of competitive elections in democratic accountability; 3. Deparliamentarization, horizontal accountability and judicialization; 4. Governance transformations and the policy role of the bureaucracy; 5. Managing accountability in monitory democracy; 6. Perceptions matter: overloads and felt accountability; 7. Conclusion: core messages; 8. Reference.