This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-making. Trends in Norway indicate that Norwegians are evaluating local democracy increasingly in terms of service performance and output, rather than in terms of political input from citizens. While traditional process evaluation is associated with governmental hierarchies and how voters can make elected representatives accountable for their policies, performance evaluation has connections with the logic of the market. It represents a shift from collective political control to individual consumer satisfaction, and consequently, from public to private accountability. Some highly prized democratic values, such as vertical political accountabilit...
notes: Representative democracy, public management, elections, performance management, political con...
Abstract: This article discusses the relation between corruption and accountability, showing that th...
This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in dem...
This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-m...
Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Tay...
This paper begins by identifying a framework in which we can study democratic representation and acc...
Transferring public service provision to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) raises concerns over accoun...
Data transparency and structural reforms are changing the nature of accountability in public service...
Government reforms such as contracting-out continue to influence public service provision within inf...
Government reforms such as contracting-out continue to influence public service provision within inf...
One of the main endeavors within ”New Public Management” (NPM) since the 1980s has been to encourage...
How do politicians in emerging democracies subvert institutional reforms that are designed to improv...
Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Tay...
Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of info...
This paper looks at the new approach to the provision of public services in which the functions of p...
notes: Representative democracy, public management, elections, performance management, political con...
Abstract: This article discusses the relation between corruption and accountability, showing that th...
This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in dem...
This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-m...
Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Tay...
This paper begins by identifying a framework in which we can study democratic representation and acc...
Transferring public service provision to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) raises concerns over accoun...
Data transparency and structural reforms are changing the nature of accountability in public service...
Government reforms such as contracting-out continue to influence public service provision within inf...
Government reforms such as contracting-out continue to influence public service provision within inf...
One of the main endeavors within ”New Public Management” (NPM) since the 1980s has been to encourage...
How do politicians in emerging democracies subvert institutional reforms that are designed to improv...
Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Tay...
Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of info...
This paper looks at the new approach to the provision of public services in which the functions of p...
notes: Representative democracy, public management, elections, performance management, political con...
Abstract: This article discusses the relation between corruption and accountability, showing that th...
This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in dem...