2011: Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (edited volume)

Dubnick, Melvin J. and H. George Frederickson (eds.), Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (M.E. Sharpe/Routledge, 2011)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Introduction: The Promises of Accountability Research”

  • PART I – Complex Challenges
  • Chapter 1 – The Challenge of Multiple Accountability: Does Redundancy lead to Overload? (Schillemans and Bovens)
  • Chapter 2 – The Tangled Web of Accountability in Contracting Networks: The Case of Welfare Reform (Romzek)
  • Chapter 3 – Accountability Challenges in Public Sector Contracting for Complex Products (Brown, Potoski & VanSlyke)
  • Chapter 4 – Accountability for Global Governance Organizations (Koppell)v
  • PART II — Obstacles to Accountability
  • Chapter 5 – Performance Blight and the Tyranny of Light? Accountability in Advanced Performance Measurement Regimes (Pollitt)
  • Chapter 6 – Does Performance Measurement Actually Improve Accountability? (Radin)
  • Chapter 7 – The Accountability Environment of U.S. Counties (Johnson, Pierce & Lovrich)
  • PART III – Assessing Accountability
  • Chapter 8 – Accountability Institutions And Information In The Policymaking Process (Posner & Schwartz)
  • Chapter 9 – Accountability and Information Technology Enactment: A Cross-National Perspective (Ghere)
  • PART IV – Adapting to Accountability
  • Chapter 10 – ‘Blame Avoidance and Accountability: Positive, Negative or Neutral?’ (Hood)
  • Chapter 11 – The Challenges of Accountability for International Nongovernmental and Civil Society Organizations (Karns, Shaffer & Ghere)
  • Chapter 12 – Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector: Abandoning the ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach (Kearns)
  • PART V – Strategies
  • Chapter 13 – Watching the Watchers (Wheeler)
  • Chapter 14 – Accountability and Voluntary Programs (Potoski & Prakesh)
  • PART VI – Rethinking Accountability
  • Chapter 15 – Accountability in Two Non-western Contexts (Jordan)
  • Chapter 16 – Accountability and a Theory of Representation (O’Kelly)
  • Chapter 17 – Emergent Accountability and Structuration Theory: Implications (Yang) *
  • Chapter 18 – Rethinking the Obsession: Accountability and the Financial Crisis (Dubnick & O’Brien)
  • Conclusion: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
  • About the Editors and Contributors Full
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