The politics of accountability in the modern state
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The politics of accountability in the modern state
Ashgate, c2001
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-429) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text explores to what degree alternative forms of accountability have evolved to remedy the shortcomings commonly identified with ministerial responsibility to Parliament. It examines the accountability of the core executive and adopts a pluralistic perspective in order to question the continuing centrality of ministerial responsibility to Parliament as the linchpin of the British constitution. The book concludes that alternative forms of accountability have not evolved to the point where they remedy the deficiencies associated with ministerial responsibility. Conversely, it is argued that, to some degree, these new mechanisms have undermined and complicated parliamentary accountability.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 History and theory: reinventing accountability. Part 2 Accountability models and case study analysis: parliamentary accountability
- parliamentary accountability and the Home Office
- judicial accountability
- judicial accountability in the Home Office
- managerial accountability and the contract state
- managerial accountability and the Home Office. Part 3 Freedom of information and conclusion: the executive morality and inverted conventions - ministerial responsibiity and freedom of information
- understanding the politics of accountability.
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