Political Accountability

Contents: Introduction: political accountability reconsidered: debates, institutions, rationale, Antonino Palumbo; Part I Political Accountability and Representative Democracy: The authority of democracy, Thomas Cristiano; Three conceptions of democratic control, Philip Pettit; Democratic legitimacy and official discretion, Arthur Isak Applbaum; Moral responsibility of public officials: the problem of many hands, Dennis F. Thompson; Responsibility and global labor justice, Iris Marion Young. Part II Structural Change and the Erosion of Accountability: Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies, Kaare StrA?m; Horizontal accountability in new democracies, Guillermo O'Donnell; Accountability in a 'reinvented' government, Linda Deleon; Accountability in the regulatory state, Colin Scott; Democratic accountability: the distinctiveness of the 3rd sector, Robert E. Goodin. Part III Global Governance and Democratic Accountability: Democratic accountability and political effectiveness from a cosmopolitan perspective, David Held; Accountability and abuses of power in world politics, Ruth W. Grant and Robert O. Keohane; The accountability of government networks, Anne-Marie Slaughter; Democratizing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: governance and accountability, Joseph E. Stiglitz; Making sense of accountability: conceptual perspectives for Northern and Southern nonprofits, Alnoor Ebrahim. Part IV The EU and the Quest for Accountability: Why Europe needs a constitution, JA1/4rgen Habermas; Europe's 'democratic deficit': the question of standards, Giandomenico Majone; In defense of the 'democratic deficit': reassessing the legitimacy in the European Union, Andrew Moravcsik; Still in deficit: rights, regulation and democracy in the EU, Richard Bellamy; The European Union: democratic legitimacy in a regional state?, Vivien A. Schmidt; Name index.