Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work For Human Development (international Political Economy Series)

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. 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 Despite Democracy's Recent Proliferation, For Marginalized People In Developing Countries The Promise Of Accountable Governance Remains Largely Unfulfilled. This Book Analyses How And Why Conventional Institutions Of Democratic Accountability Fail To Advance The Interests Of The Poor, And Assesses The Worldwide Wave Of Experimentation With New Methods For Holding Powerful Actors Accountable.--jacket. Introduction -- Where Accountability Meets Governance : Globalization, Participation And Corruption -- Accountability Failures And Human Development -- New Roles For Accountability Actors -- New Methods And Shifting Accountability Jurisdictions -- New Standards Of Accountability -- Gender And Accountability -- The Politics Of Backlash : Critiques Of The New Accountability Agenda. Anne Marie Goetz And Rob Jenkins. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 224-240) And Index. 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 Accountability is a perpetual struggle when power is delegated by the many to the few in the interests of governability.