Making Accountability Work
Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit
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- Paperback
290 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2017
Summary
Like honesty and clean water, ““accountability”” is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most of the greatest abuses in human history. Accountability is thus closely linked with the exercise of power and the legitimacy of policies and those pursuing them. This book looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. The contributors explore the apparent paradox of there being more account…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781412865555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1412865557 |
| Author: | Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 290 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Comparative Policy Evaluation |
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About The Author
Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc
Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc is former professor of public administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and a former senator in the Netherlands Parliament. Jeremy Lonsdale is a director at the National Audit Office in London. Burt Perrin is an independent consultant in evaluation, policy and program development, and strategic planning, on behalf of governments, international organizations, and the private sector. Amitai Etzioni is university professor and professor of international affairs at The George Washington University. He served as a senior advisor at the Carter White House; taught at Columbia University, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley; and served as the president of the American Sociological Association.
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