Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change
Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2017
- ISBN 9780198800606
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 241x160x19 mm
- Weight 464 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume examines the theorization of democratic accountability and what accountability processes tell us about political order and orderly change.
MoreLong description:
Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon.
Mainstream approaches to democratic accountability, assuming settled principal-agent relations may give insight into the routines of institutional accountability. This book argues that it is not enough to analyze how accountability processes contribute to routinized maintenance of an established order within relatively stable, simple, and well-known situations. We need to understand accountability in eras of institutional confusion and contestation and in dynamic, complex, and unknown situations. First, variations in the relations between democratic accountability and political association, organization, and agency are endogenous to politics. Second, accountability processes take place within both settled and unsettled orders. They can be both order-maintaining and order-transforming. Third, accountability involves sense-making as well as decision-making. Fourth, accountability may involve mass mobilization or go on largely unnoticed by the public. Fifth, accountability processes may or may not foster new ideas about political order, government, and the role of rank-and-file citizens in political life. They may or may not affect what democracy will mean and imply in the future.
The aim of this book is twofold: to contribute to the theorization of democratic accountability and to discuss what accountability processes tell us about political order and orderly change in general.
Olsen has written a comprehensive and highly convincing book. This book should be regarded as an important contribution to political science and to studies on democratic accountability, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in democratic accountability as well as European studies.
Table of Contents:
Democratic Accountability and the Terms of Political Order
The Organizational Basis of Accountability: Settled and Unsettled Policies
Order-Maintaining and Order-Transforming Accountability Processes
Ambiguity and the Politics of Accountability
Accountability and the Separation of Talk and Action
Political Order and Citizens' Involvement in Accountability Processes
What Accountability Processes in an Era of Transformation Tell Us
