This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. Itschapters on institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in Finland, and the European Ombudsman.
Tero Erkkilä is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous books include Government Transparency, Global University Rankings, Public Administration (with B. Guy Peters and Patrick von Maravic) and Global Knowledge Governance (with Ossi Piironen).
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1 Ombudsman as Global Institution.- Chapter 2 Transnational Governance and Global Diffusion of the Ombudsman Institution.- Chapter 3 Institutional History of the Ombudsman and Chancellor of Justice in Finland.- Chapter 4 The Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Chancellor of Justice, and Institutional Change.- Chapter 5 European Ombudsman as Supranational Institution of Accountability.- Chapter 6 European Ombudsman and Institutional Change.- Chapter 7 Conclusions.