Does Public Accountability Work? An Assessment Tool
Bovens, Mark; Schillemans, Thomas; 't Hart, Paul
Description
In recent years, there has been a drive to strengthen existing public accountability arrangements and to design new ones. This prompts the question whether accountability arrangements actually work. In the existing literature, both accountability 'deficits' and 'overloads' are alleged to exist. However, owing to the lack of a cogent yardstick, the debate tends to be impressionistic and event-driven. In this article we develop an instrument for systematically assessing public accountability...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2008 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/18567 |
Source: | Public Administration |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.00716.x |
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