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| Author | : Peter Newell |
| Publisher | : Zed Books |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2006-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781842775554 |
With examples drawn from a wide range of economic and industrial sectors, and from both South and North, this title presents a topical exploration of struggles for accountability in development projects.
| Author | : Piotr Mikuli |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2021-08-12 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1000424677 |
This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies. The authors deal with various problems connected to controlling public institutions and incumbents’ responsibility in state bodies. The work is divided into three parts. Part I: Law examines the institutional and objective approach. Part II: Fairness and Rights considers the subject approach, referring to a recipient of rights. Part III: Authority looks at the functional approach, referring to the executors of law. Providing insights into increasing understanding of various concepts, principles, and institutions characteristic of the modern state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the area of comparative constitutional change. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics.
| Author | : Heidi Kitrosser |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2015-01-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 022619177X |
Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case—and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from “presidentialism,” or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments—including “supremacy” and “unitary executive theory”—she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser’s own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2014-09-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9264183639 |
There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.
| Author | : Lisa Jordan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1136560424 |
As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as well as featuring prominently in the global political arena, NGOs are under fire for being 'unaccountable'. But who do NGOs actually represent? Who should they be accountable to and how? This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and questions whether these are appropriate and viable options or attempts to 'roll-back' NGOs to a more one-dimensional function as organizers of national and global charity. Input and case studies are provided from NGOs such as ActionAid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia and Uganda. In the spirit of moving towards greater accountability the book looks in detail at innovations that have developed from within NGOs and offers new approaches and flexible frameworks that enable accountability to become a reality for all parties worldwide.
| Author | : Gisela Hirschmann |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198861249 |
This book provides a new conceptual framework to study pluralist accountability, whereby third parties hold IOs and their implementing partners accountable for human rights violations.
| Author | : Stian Øby Johansen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2020-07-16 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108495672 |
Establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.
| Author | : Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2016-07-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1316552888 |
Corruption is a significant problem for democracies throughout the world. Even the most democratic countries constantly face the threat of corruption and the consequences of it at the polls. Why are some governments more corrupt than others, even after considering cultural, social, and political characteristics? In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that clarity of responsibility is critical for reducing corruption in democracies. The authors provide a number of empirical tests of this argument, including a cross-national time-series statistical analysis to show that the higher the level of clarity the lower the perceived corruption levels. Using survey and experimental data, the authors show that clarity causes voters to punish incumbents for corruption. Preliminary tests further indicate that elites respond to these electoral incentives and are more likely to combat corruption when clarity is high.
| Author | : Hannes Hansen-Magnusson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2021-07-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0429556810 |
What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory. This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states, international organizations, political movements, or corporations, or address how responsibility matters in structuring the politics of global commons, such as oceans, resources, or the Internet. Providing a comprehensive overview of IR scholarship on responsibility, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in many fields including IR, international law, political theory, global ethics, science and technology, area studies, development studies, business ethics, and environmental and security governance.
| Author | : Steven R. Ratner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199546665 |
This book explores the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, and appraises the mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice.
