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.
目錄:
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 dilemmathe 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.