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Köp båda 2 för 1380 kr'This is one of the best monographs on accountability that I have come across during my academic career. The central argument - we can only establish deficits or overloads by applying a variety of benchmarks - is very well argued and convincing. The book is an original and very relevant contribution to the existing literature and really takes the debate several steps further. The author has an exceptional familiarity with the relevant literature and is able to utilize a large variety of theoretical concepts and dimensions in order to get a better understanding of the very complex issues regarding accountability. She has an excellent capacity for independent thinking and is able to operate smoothly across a variety of disciplines, such as law, philosophy, and the social sciences. The manuscript is very well written, has a clear structure and is reader-friendly, the complexity of the issues notwithstanding, which is very rare in this line of work.' M.A.P. Bovens, Professor at Utrecht University, Faculteit Recht, Economie, Bestuur en Organisatie
'In the accountability literature, claims of accountability 'deficits' and 'overloads' are ubiquitous. In this highly original book, Ellen Rock addresses the obvious, but rarely asked, question of how to measure accountability: how much accountability is too little, too much or just enough? Her systematic and rigorous analyses of what is meant by 'accountability' and how it might be measured shine a very bright light on dark and neglected corners of the theory and practice of public law and public administration. Her work greatly enhances our understanding of central challenges in controlling the exercise of public power.' Peter Cane, Senior Research Fellow Christ's College, University of Cambridge
'DrEllen Rock has taken 'accountability' - a term so ubiquitous in analyses ofpublic governance that it has become almost clichd - and exposed it to aforensic analysis thatreveals both the content that it already possesses andthe extent to which its meaning remains to be revealed. She resists the temptation to declareaccountability to be 'A GoodThing' and reason accordingly from that assumption. Instead, her analysis is conducted on thebasis that more light is still to be shed on the accountability concept and tothat endshe spends the central part of the book asking questions such as whoshouldbeaccountable, to whom, for what and how. These are difficult questions which are picked apart withprecision and appropriatededication. For all her thoroughness, Rockdoes not presume that everything that there is to know on this topic will beknown by a reader who reaches theend of the book.Rather, she is comfortable to lead the waythrough what is known about accountability and then to point to the researchstill to be undertaken. This is a bookoftrue scholarship which contributes to, and leads discussion of, a very importantconcept without ever presuming to close that discussion from furt...
Ellen Rock is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include government accountability and liability, and she has published widely on these topics in leading law journals and edited collections. She is co-author of Government Liability: Principles and Remedies (with Janina Boughey and Greg Weeks, 2019).
Introduction; Part I. Accountability Deficits and Overloads: 1. Defining accountability; 2. Too little or too much of a good thing?; Part II. Benchmark of Accountability: 3. Five rationales for accountability; 4. Who should be held accountable?; 5. To whom should they be accountable?; 6. For what should they be accountable?; 7. How should they be held accountable?; 8. Defining and deploying a benchmark of accountability; Part III. The Complexity of Accountability Systems: 9. Features in balance; 10. Relationship dynamics in the system; 11. Mapping out a system in practice Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.