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OverviewAccountability regimes are crucial for the legitimacy of political systems and this volume examines democratic accountability regimes as a mechanism by which citizens are supposed to control their elected representatives, non-elected officials, and other power-holders. The author argues that the recent upsurge in accountability-demands in representative democracies are driven by a loss of citizens' confidence in institutions and leaders and a struggle over the terms of political order and peaceful co-existence, and that making sense of accountability processes requires a re-examination and reassessment of the possibilities and limitations of the key assumptions of mainstream principal-agent approaches. The volume focuses on the interrelations between democratic accountability, political order, and orderly change - how democratic accountability processes are affected by and affect political association and the social basis of political order, political organization, and the institutional basis of order, and political agency and the behavioural basis of order. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Johan P. Olsen (Professor Emeritus in Political Science and Founding Director of Arena, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.464kg ISBN: 9780198800606ISBN 10: 0198800606 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 27 April 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Democratic Accountability and the Terms of Political Order 2: The Organizational Basis of Accountability: Settled and Unsettled Policies 3: Order-Maintaining and Order-Transforming Accountability Processes 4: Ambiguity and the Politics of Accountability 5: Accountability and the Separation of Talk and Action 6: Political Order and Citizens' Involvement in Accountability Processes 7: What Accountability Processes in an Era of Transformation Tell UsReviewsThis thought-provoking, groundbreaking book feeds to ongoing political theory debates on accountability, democracy, order, and change by posing many interesting questions especially in regards to ambiguity, uncertainty and limited control. - Alexandra Bousiou, EuropeNow Olsen has written a comprehensive and highly convincing book. This book should be regarded as an important contribution to political science and to studies on democratic accountability, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in democratic accountability as well as European studies. * Goezde Yilmaz, JMCS * Author InformationJohan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and Founding Director of Arena, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. He has publicized widely in international in international journals and authored several books, among them Europe in Search of Political Order (OUP 2007) and Governing Through Institution Building (OUP 2010). He is a member of five Academies and an honorary doctor in four countries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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