Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development

✍ Scribed by Anne Marie Goetz, Rob Jenkins (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 261
Series: International Political Economy Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Where Accountability Meets Governance: Globalization, Participation and Corruption....Pages 16-44
Accountability Failures and Human Development....Pages 45-76
New Roles for Accountability Actors....Pages 77-109
New Methods and Shifting Accountability Jurisdictions....Pages 110-133
New Standards of Accountability....Pages 134-157
Gender and Accountability....Pages 158-179
The Politics of Backlash: Critiques of the New Accountability Agenda....Pages 180-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-249

✦ Subjects

Economic Policy; International Relations; Political Economy; Democracy; Finance, general

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