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Behn, Robert D

Rethinking democratic accountability - Washington Brookings Institution Press 2001 - viii, 317p.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, MI :
ProQuest,
2015.
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ISBN: 9780815708612

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Administrative responsibility--United States.
Administrative agencies--Management.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Officials and employees--Discipline.
United States--Officials and employees--Rating of.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

Dewey Class. No.: 352.350973 / BE-R