00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004310 20221101080425 0010-0520004310 221101################|##########|#eng## 9780521617611 eng 342.088 22 342.088 22 PUB p Public Accountability : Design Dilemmas and Experiences Public Accountability : Design Dilemmas and Experiences / Edited by Dowdle, Michael 1 New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 xvii,455p.;24 cm ; 24 cm 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. 1. Public Administration - Moral and Ethical Aspect 2. Administrative Responsibility 07335/MKRI-P/XII-2007