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Rethinking Democratic Accountability

Rethinking Democratic Accountability

Behn, Robert D.

Paperback

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0815708610
ISBN13: 9780815708612
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Traditionally, American government has created detailed, formal procedures to ensure that its agencies and employees are accountable for finances and fairness. Now in the interest of improved performance, we are asking our front-line workers to be more responsive, we are urging our middle managers to be innovative, and we are exhorting our public executives to be entrepreneurial. Yet what is the theory of democratic accountability that empowers public employees to exercise such discretion while still ensuring that we remain a government of laws? How can government be responsive to the needs of individual citizens and still remain accountable to the entire polity? In Rethinking Democratic Accountability, Robert D. Behn examines the ambiguities, contradictions, and inadequacies in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance. Weaving wry observations with political theory, Behn suggests a new model of accountability--with compacts of collective, mutual responsibility--to address new paradigms for public management.

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