[PDF] Public Accountability And Transparency The Imperatives Of Good Governance eBook

Author : Melvin J. Dubnick
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765627396

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Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement. Democracy is just an empty exercise if those in power cannot be held accountable in public for their acts and omissions, for their decisions, their policies, and their expenditures. This book offers a finely detailed and richly informed consideration of accountability in both government and the contemporary world of governance. Twenty-five leading experts cover varying aspects of the accountability movement, including multiple and competing accountabilities, measuring accountability, accountability and democratic legitimacy, and accountability and information technology, and apply them to governments, quasi-governments, non-government organizations, governance organizations, and voluntary organizations. Together they provide the most comprehensive consideration of accountability currently available, with a blend of theoretical, empirical, and applied approaches.

Author : Heidi Kitrosser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 022619177X

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Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case—and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from “presidentialism,” or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments—including “supremacy” and “unitary executive theory”—she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser’s own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.

Author : M. A. P. Bovens
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199641250

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Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

Author : Henk Addink
Publisher :
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0198841159

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This book explores how good governance has become the third dominant concept in the modern state. It examines the concept and how it relates to the rule of law and democracy, and breaks it down into six categories: transparency, participation, effectiveness, accountability, human rights protections, and propriety.

Author : Finn Janning
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030357805

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Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality. From a philosophical perspective, society has experienced a gradual paradigm shift which intensified after the Second World War with the advent of the information era. As a fundamental part of an inescapable, hegemonic capitalist system and given the insistent emphasis on it as a moral imperative, transparency, this book avers, needs to be examined and challenged as to its true governance value in building a sustainable twenty-first century society. Rather than clinging to the fantasy of complete transparency as the only form of accountability, corporate governance is strengthened in this way by practicing true social responsibility, which emerges not from outward-looking compliance but from a deeper place in the corporate psyche through inward-looking contemplation and the development of moral maturity.

Author : Samuel Asamoah
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 366806444X

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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: The study stems out of the growing concern among key governance stakeholders such as citizens, civil societies, political parties, international development organizations among other actors on the need to ensure accountability of public officials and improved public service delivery. The paper employs historical method to reveal the essence and domains of the concept of public accountability. The study traces the roots of the word and provides the justification for “accountor” and “accountee” behavior and relationship. Finally, the study outlines the importance of the concept in modern day politics

Author : Michael D. Dowdle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521852145

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The most comprehensive survey to-date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account.

Author : Archon Fung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139465139

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Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices.

Author : Sam Agere
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Government productivity
ISBN : 9781848597129

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The concept of good governance is interlinked with institutionalised values such as democracy, observance of human rights, accountability, transparency and greater efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector. This publication focuses on key elements of good governance. It discusses the role of public management in promoting productivity and improving performance in the pursuit of efficiency, effectiveness, economic growth, sustainable development and social justice. The book looks at the public/private sector interface in the context of developing a meaningful and effective partnership in economic development.