Table of Contents

1: Mark Bovens, Thomas Schillemans & Robert E. Goodin: Public Accountability
A. Analytical Perspectives
2: Melvin J. Dubnick: Accountability as a Cultural Keyword
3: Mark E. Warren: Accountability and Democracy
4: Jane Mansbridge: A Contingency Theory of Accountability
5: Shefali V. Patil, Ferdinand Vieider & Philip E. Tetlock: Process versus Outcome Accountability
6: Sean Gailmard: Accountability and Principal-Agent Theory
7: Johan P. Olsen: Accountability and Ambiguity
B. Studying Accountability
8: Christopher Koch & Jens Wüstemann: Experimental Analysis
9: Gijs Jan Brandsma: Quantitative Analysis
10: Kaifeng Yang: Qualitative Analysis
11: Jane Davison: Visual Accountability
C. Accountable Governance
12: Carol Harlow: Accountability and Constitutional Law
13: B. Guy Peters: Accountability in Public Administration
14: John Uhr: Accountable Civil Servants
15: Erik Hans Klijn & Joop F.M. Koppenjan: Accountable Networks
16: Bodil Damgaard & Jenny M. Lewis: Accountability and Citizen Participation
17: Yannis Papadopoulos: Accountability and Multi-Level Governance
18: Michael Goodhart: Accountable International Relations
D. Organizational Accountability
19: Barbara S. Romzek: Accountable Public Services
20: Per Lægreid: Accountability and New Public Management
21: Steven Rathgeb Smith: Accountability and the Non Profit Sector
22: Sheldon Leader: Accountable Corporate Governance
23: Jonathan Koppell: Accountable Global Governance Organizations
E. Accountability mechanisms
24: Mark N. Franklin, Stuart Soroka & Christopher Wlezien: Elections
25: Mark D. Jarvis: Hierarchy
26: Christie Hayne & Steven E. Salterio: Accounting and Auditing
27: Steven Van de Walle & Floor Cornelissen: Performance Reporting
28: Robert D. Behn: PerformanceStat
29: Colin Scott: Independent Regulators
30: Paul L. Posner & Asif Shahan: Audit Institutions
31: Albert Meijer: Transparency
32: Pippa Norris: Watchdog Journalism
F. Debating Accountability
33: Richard Mulgan: Accountability Deficits
34: Arie Halachmi: Accountability Overloads
35: Jerry L. Mashaw: Accountability and Time
36: Sanneke Kuipers & Paul 't Hart: Accountability and Crises
37: Christopher Hood: Accountability and Blame Avoidance
38: Dorothea Greiling: Accountability and Trust
39: Mark H. Moore: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Court of Public Opinion
G. Reflections on the future of Accountability Studies
40: Melvin J. Dubnick: The Ontological Challenge
41: Frank Vibert: The Need for a Systemic Approach
42: Matthew Flinders: The Future and Relevance of Accountability Studies
43: Mark Bovens & Thomas Schillemans: Meaningful Accountability

About the Author

Mark Bovens is a political scientist and lawyer by training. He is Professor of Public Administration at the Utrecht University School of Governance, which he co-founded in 2000. As of 2013, he is a member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in The Hague, the strategic think tank of the Dutch cabinet. He has published 24 monographs and edited volumes and over a hundred articles and chapters in the areas of politics, government, and legal
theory. He is an internationally well-known expert in the field of accountability studies and has published a number of seminal books and papers on the topic (eg: The Quest for Responsibility:
Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organizations, CUP 1998; The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit?, OUP 2010). Robert E. Goodin is a philosopher and political scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Australian National University, as well as Professor of Government at the University of Essex. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Goodin is founding editor of
The Journal of Political Philosophy and of the Cambridge University Press series of books on 'Theories of Institutional Design'. He served as general editor of the eleven-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His
own work straddles democratic theory (e.g. Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003), empirical welfare-state studies (e.g., The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, CUP 1999; Discretionary Time, CUP 2008) and theoretical reflections on public policy (e.g., Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility, CUP 1998; What's Wrong with Terrorism? Polity 2006). Thomas Schillemans is a public administration scholar. He received his PhD with honors in 2007 for his
thesis on Horizontal Accountability in the Shadow of Hierarchy. His working experience includes seven years at the council for social development, an advisory body of the Dutch government. His research aims to make sense of dispersed practices of
governance through empirical studies that examine the interactions of executive agencies, regulators and nonprofit organizations with relevant stakeholders: clients, professional peers and the newsmedia. Public accountability is a key concept in his work. He is assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance.