Rethinking democratic accountability

Rethinking democratic accountability /

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Behn, Robert D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2001
Subjects:
Administrative responsibility > United States.
Administrative agencies > United States > Management.
United States > Officials and employees > Discipline.
United States > Officials and employees > Rating of.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • What do we mean by accountability, anyway?
  • Performance and the new public management
  • The traditional, public-administration paradigm of accountability
  • The questions of democratic accountability
  • Discretion and trust
  • Retrospective accountability for performance
  • A new compact of mutual, collective responsibility
  • The cooperation challenge
  • Fostering cooperation with conventions and norms
  • Evolving a charter agency
  • 360-degree accountability for performance.

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