Safeguarding public accountability in horizontal government

2006

Journal of Advance Research in Business Management and Accounting (ISSN: 2456-3544), 2019

This research examined the question of accountability; new forms or a democratic deficit. The study examined specially examines the relationship between transparency and accountability, relationship between technocratic decision making and accountability and finally the relationship between proper coordination and accountability. The study is an exploratory study that used mainly secondary sources of information obtained from journals, text books and from the internet. The findings from the review shows that public accountability is important because it provides a democratic means to monitor and control government conduct, prevent the development of concentrations of power, and enhance the learning capacity and effectiveness of public administration. This is because rulers can be investigated and held to account for actions that transgress the law or result in personal enrichment or violate common mores. These tenets are lacking in our public institutions and in broader perspective ...

Cambridge Elements in Public Policy, 2023

This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in democratic governance. The electoral punishment of the incumbents, parliamentary control of the government, and sanctions in the case of administrative misconduct or negligence are the most visible manifestations of accountability in politics. However, the phenomenon is much more complex, and fully understanding such a multifaceted object requires bridging bodies of work that usually remain disjointed. This Element assesses the effectiveness of vertical accountability through elections and how interinstitutional accountability operates in checks-and-balances systems, along with the growing role of the courts. It evaluates how the accountability of the bureaucracy has been affected by managerial reforms and different governance transformations. It also scrutinizes to what extent mediatization and policy failure boost accountability, before zooming in on the feelings and reactions of those who are held accountable.

Scandinavian Political Studies, 2009

Political Studies, 2009

Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2010

Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada, 2004

Kalam International Research Journal, 2020

This study is about accountability of public institutions. Accountability is an important aspect of good governance as without it there can be no democratic governance. The purpose of this study is to review the literature available about accountability and identify the gap in previous studies. This study, before focusing on accountability, first searched for the available literature on this topic. Once this was done, theoretical and empirical literature were reviewed. Published books, previous research papers, and the Internet were the secondary sources used to obtain the qualitative data for this study. These secondary sources were analyzed using the descriptive method. Through this study, much knowledge was gained of the actors and processes of accountability, history of accountability, accountability framework, importance of accountability, and types of accountability, by reviewing the theoretical literature. Further, the accountability practices of different countries were scrutinized by going through the empirical literature. An important research gap this study noted was that socio-demographic and administrative factors were not fully identified in previous studies. This gap must be narrowed or eliminated if further progress is to be made in future studies.

The material remains of the Early Iron Age in Hungary (Ha B2-3) are indicative of a new threat of war that strongly influenced the life of local communities. This paper presents the circumstantial and direct evidence of this threat. Indirect evidence is provided by the fact that about 75% of the known fortified settlements in the eastern Hungarian mountains were built during this epoch. At the same time, the spread of new and complex fortification structures or a diversity thereof in terms of size, function and internal organisation of the fortified areas can be documented. The destruction of the settlement of Baks-Temetőpart indicates that warlike events took place in the area of the Great Hungarian Plain. Furthermore, the mass graves from the end of the 9th century and from the 8th century BC discovered in the eastern Carpathian Basin can, in our opinion, be interpreted as evidence of an epidemic and famine associated with a crisis or as evidence of massacres in settlements under attack. The most spectacular direct evidence of Early Iron Age warfare are the archaeological finds of sieges of settlements in the Carpathian Basin and in Central Europe, which can be dated by the characteristic bronze arrowheads of the steppe riders. Sites in north-eastern Hungary that have been identified in recent years indicate that there were at least two waves of attacks in the 9th – 8th centuries and in the 7th century BC: at that, major settle ment centres in the northern and western Carpathian Basin were attacked from the east or south-east.