Rethinking democratic accountability /
Behn, Robert D.
Rethinking democratic accountability / Robert D. Behn. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001. - viii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What do we mean by accountability, anyway? -- Performance and the new public management -- The traditional, public-administration paradigm of accountability -- The questions of democratic accountability -- Discretion and trust -- Retrospective accountability for performance -- A new compact of mutual, collective responsibility -- The cooperation challenge -- Fostering cooperation with conventions and norms -- Evolving a charter agency -- 360-degree accountability for performance.
0815708629 (cloth) 0815708610 (pbk.)
00011826
Administrative responsibility--United States.
Administrative agencies--Management.--United States
United States--Officials and employees--Discipline.
United States--Officials and employees--Rating of.
JK768.7 / .B44 2001
Rethinking democratic accountability / Robert D. Behn. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001. - viii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What do we mean by accountability, anyway? -- Performance and the new public management -- The traditional, public-administration paradigm of accountability -- The questions of democratic accountability -- Discretion and trust -- Retrospective accountability for performance -- A new compact of mutual, collective responsibility -- The cooperation challenge -- Fostering cooperation with conventions and norms -- Evolving a charter agency -- 360-degree accountability for performance.
0815708629 (cloth) 0815708610 (pbk.)
00011826
Administrative responsibility--United States.
Administrative agencies--Management.--United States
United States--Officials and employees--Discipline.
United States--Officials and employees--Rating of.
JK768.7 / .B44 2001