State-society Synergy for Accountability
Title | State-society Synergy for Accountability PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780821358313 |
Annotation This paper explores mechanisms to promote good governance by institutionalizing an accountability structure that holds public officials responsible for their actions as public servants.
State-society Synergy for Accountability
Title | State-society Synergy for Accountability PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Civil society |
ISBN | 9780821358320 |
The paper concludes with a series of lessons for World Bank staff on how best to initiate, design, and implement successful accountability mechanisms grounded in state-society synergy."--Jacket.
State-society Synergy for Accountability
Title | State-society Synergy for Accountability PDF eBook |
Author | World Bank |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Annotation This paper explores mechanisms to promote good governance by institutionalizing an accountability structure that holds public officials responsible for their actions as public servants.
Accountability Politics
Title | Accountability Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan A. Fox |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2007-12-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191607266 |
How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve as handholds for subsequent efforts to open up the state to public scrutiny. This book explores the how civil society "thickens" by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during, and after national electoral turning points. The book addresses how much power-sharing really happens in policy innovations that include participatory social and environmental councils, citizen oversight of elections, local government social investment funds, participation reforms in World Bank projects, community-managed food programs, as well as new social oversight and public information access reforms. Meanwhile, efforts to exercise voice unfold at the same time as rural citizens consider their exit options, as millions migrate to the US, where many have since come together in a new migrant civil society. Since explanations of electoral change do not account for how people actually experience the state, this book concludes that new analytical frameworks are needed to understand "transitions to accountability." This involves unpacking the interaction between participation, transparency and accountability. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Accountability without Democracy
Title | Accountability without Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Lily L. Tsai |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007-08-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139466488 |
Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in rural China. In authoritarian and transitional systems, formal institutions for holding government officials accountable are often weak. The state often lacks sufficient resources to monitor its officials closely, and citizens are limited in their power to elect officials they believe will perform well and to remove them when they do not. The answer, Lily L. Tsai found, lies in a community's social institutions. Even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State
Title | The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew V. Flinders |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Administrative responsibility |
ISBN |
The Politics of Food in Mexico
Title | The Politics of Food in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Fox |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780801427169 |
Compares a range of Mexican food policy reforms, focusing on the SAM (Mexican Food System), a program in place from 1980-82, designed to shift subsidies and privileged access from large private farmers and ranchers to peasants and small producers. In this context, Fox (political science, MIT) examines the limits and possibilities of political reform, and its history and future in the Mexican state. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR