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Political Accountability (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Political Accountability (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Library of Contemporary Essays in Political Theory and Public Policy
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Political accountability forms a cornerstone of modern democracy:
it directs the political system towards the public interest and
allows the exercise of the principles of autonomy and
self-determination that lie at the core of democratic politics.
Sadly, existing democracies, with their large, centralized
bureaucracies, have evolved in ways that progressively undermine
the ability of citizens to keep their representatives accountable
and political regimes responsive. Far from reversing this trend,
the neoliberal reforms introduced since the 1980s have increased
that accountability gap. Globalization and the alleged passage from
'government' to 'governance' have aggravated the problem further.
The notion of accountability that survives these changes is a
problematic form of auditing carried out by a constellation of
quangos, autonomous agencies and NGOs whose own accountability is
problematic. This volume collects the main contributions to current
debates on political accountability. It explores the challenges
traditional conventions of accountability face today at the
domestic, trans- and international levels and indicates the
distinctive solutions those challenges require.
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