Reinventing Accountability Making Democracy Work for Human Development

by Goetz, Anne-Marie; Jenkins, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781403906243
• ISBN10: 1403906246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A deepening crisis in accountability in developing democracies has triggered much debate on accountability and the mechanisms needed for overcoming deficiencies of democracy. This book analyzes a wide variety of contemporary efforts to reform accountability systems in developing countries. It makes an original contribution to the debate by dealing with a variety of novel approaches to accountability and it combines these approaches in both a systematic and analytic fashion. The book also includes case study material on successful accountability initiatives.

Author Biography

Anne Marie Goetz is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Rob Jenkins is Professor of Political Science, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
1 Introduction	1	(15)
2 Where Accountability Meets Governance: Globalization, Participation and Corruption	16	(29)
3 Accountability Failures and Human Development	45	(32)
4 New Roles for Accountability Actors	77	(33)
5 New Methods and Shifting Accountability Jurisdictions	110	(24)
6 New Standards of Accountability	134	(24)
7 Gender and Accountability	158	(22)
8 The Politics of Backlash: Critiques of the New Accountability Agenda	180	(18)
Notes	198	(26)
Bibliography	224	(17)
Index	241