Power, Accountability and Rights

Power, Accountability and Rights
Title Power, Accountability and Rights PDF eBook
Author Stephen King
Publisher
Pages
Release 2017-01-25
Genre
ISBN 9780995354708

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Accountability and the Law

Accountability and the Law
Title Accountability and the Law PDF eBook
Author Piotr Mikuli
Publisher Routledge
Pages 225
Release 2021-08-12
Genre Law
ISBN 1000424677

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This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies. The authors deal with various problems connected to controlling public institutions and incumbents’ responsibility in state bodies. The work is divided into three parts. Part I: Law examines the institutional and objective approach. Part II: Fairness and Rights considers the subject approach, referring to a recipient of rights. Part III: Authority looks at the functional approach, referring to the executors of law. Providing insights into increasing understanding of various concepts, principles, and institutions characteristic of the modern state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the area of comparative constitutional change. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics.

Company Law

Company Law
Title Company Law PDF eBook
Author Siew Cheang Loh
Publisher
Pages 1474
Release 2017
Genre Corporation law
ISBN 9789888301300

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Reclaiming Accountability

Reclaiming Accountability
Title Reclaiming Accountability PDF eBook
Author Heidi Kitrosser
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 292
Release 2015-01-06
Genre 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.

Learning While Governing

Learning While Governing
Title Learning While Governing PDF eBook
Author Sean Gailmard
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 331
Release 2013
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0226924408

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Sean Gailmard is the Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. John W. Patty is associate professor of political science at Washington University.

Challenging Power

Challenging Power
Title Challenging Power PDF eBook
Author Cynthia Kaufman
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 233
Release 2020-05-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1350139076

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Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labour, police abuse, and economic deprivation. In Challenging Power, Kaufman pairs each of these issues with an operation of power -- the large scale influence of multinational corporations; the power of governments; the authority of financial markets; and the control inherent in systems of meaning -- and using case studies like the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and the killing of Eric Garner, forcefully demonstrates what is involved in challenging these operations of power. Advancing a positive message, Kaufman maintains that these networks are not omnipotent and can be challenged if we develop 'mechanisms of accountability' which allow us to conceptualise the nature of these problems and the actions required to resist them. Kaufman provides then, a model for ethical action that allows us to investigate and appreciate our own connections to the powerful forces that control our world.

The Self-restraining State

The Self-restraining State
Title The Self-restraining State PDF eBook
Author Andreas Schedler
Publisher Lynne Rienner Publishers
Pages 412
Release 1999
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9781555877743

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This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.