Rethinking Democratic Accountability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Democratic Accountability write by Robert D. Behn. This book was released on 2004-05-26. Rethinking Democratic Accountability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Constructivist Turn in Political Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructivist Turn in Political Representation write by Lisa Disch. This book was released on 2019-01-22. Constructivist Turn in Political Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented.
Why Bother?
Why Bother? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Bother? write by S. Erdem Aytaç. This book was released on 2019-01-10. Why Bother? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How do politicians and activists manipulate people's emotions to get them involved? The authors of Why Bother? offer a new theory of why people take part in collective action in politics, and test it in the contexts of voting and protesting. They develop the idea that just as there are costs of participation in politics, there are also costs of abstention - intrinsic and psychological but no less real. That abstention can be psychically costly helps explain real-world patterns that are anomalies for existing theories, such as that sometimes increases in costs of participation are followed by more participation, not less. The book draws on a wealth of survey data, interviews, and experimental results from a range of countries, including the United States, Britain, Brazil, Sweden, and Turkey.
Rethinking Democracy
Rethinking Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Democracy write by Andrew Gamble. This book was released on 2019-01-04. Rethinking Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy"- Polly Toynbee "This important book shows the many challenges democracy faces in a world of populism and radical digital change" - Margaret Hodge 2018 saw celebrations of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which marked a decisive step towards full universal suffrage - this collection of essays explores the problems of democracy and suggests ways it might now be extended and deepened. Investigates if democracy is an unfinished revolution and if democratic politics is currently in retreat Demonstrates how democratic politics is once again under attack - this time from populist nationalists, authoritarian rulers and new forms of political communication Argues that if we lose the art of active citizenship, we will lose the freedoms and the rights which democracy has bestowed
Democratic Accountability
Democratic Accountability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Accountability write by Leif Lewin. This book was released on 2007-03-15. Democratic Accountability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, not only do political leaders exert enough control to be assigned responsibility, but also that the meaning of a functioning democracy requires the people to hold their leaders accountable.
