Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences

edited by Michael W. Dowdle

ISBN 10: 0521852145 / ISBN 13: 9780521852142

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2006

Orange pictorial hardcover with brown and white lettering on front cover and spine, corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Some page corners bumped and creased. Binding tight, pages very clean, no markings. 455 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment. Seller Inventory # 017547

Synopsis:

There is an ongoing perception that public accountability in modern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization and the increasing power of private economic interests. This book responds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey to date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account, and the various problems they face. The book shows how key issues, such as public-mindedness, democracy and responsibility, and structures, such as bureaucracy, markets and transparency, adopt radically different and sometimes contradictory interpretations when viewed from different experiential perspectives. It also demonstrates how underlying all this are core communities of experiences that bind these diverse interpretations and perspectives into a complex web of mutual interaction and influence. The book includes studies not only of Anglo-American experiences, but also of the experiences of foreign and transnational organizations: NGOs, transnational resistance movements, the Indonesian labor movement, and the Chinese Parliament.

About the Author: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Government and Public Administration.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Public Accountability: Designs, Dilemmas and...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket