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Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change - Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation (Hardcover)
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Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change - Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation (Hardcover)
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Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe,
where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged,
make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in
stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where
political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are
doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic
accountability, assuming settled principal-agent relations may give
insight into the routines of institutional accountability. This
book argues that it is not enough to analyze how accountability
processes contribute to routinized maintenance of an established
order within relatively stable, simple, and well-known situations.
We need to understand accountability in eras of institutional
confusion and contestation and in dynamic, complex, and unknown
situations. First, variations in the relations between democratic
accountability and political association, organization, and agency
are endogenous to politics. Second, accountability processes take
place within both settled and unsettled orders. They can be both
order-maintaining and order-transforming. Third, accountability
involves sense-making as well as decision-making. Fourth,
accountability may involve mass mobilization or go on largely
unnoticed by the public. Fifth, accountability processes may or may
not foster new ideas about political order, government, and the
role of rank-and-file citizens in political life. They may or may
not affect what democracy will mean and imply in the future. The
aim of this book is twofold: to contribute to the theorization of
democratic accountability and to discuss what accountability
processes tell us about political order and orderly change in
general.
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