03408nam 22006014a 450 991082614160332120240605004640.00-8157-9810-5(CKB)111087027971490(OCoLC)614694944(CaPaEBR)ebrary10026246(SSID)ssj0000237118(PQKBManifestationID)11188312(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237118(PQKBWorkID)10191644(PQKB)10012176(OCoLC)1132224863(MdBmJHUP)muse73703(Au-PeEL)EBL3004316(CaPaEBR)ebr10026246(OCoLC)53482664(MiAaPQ)EBC3004316(EXLCZ)9911108702797149020001010d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRethinking democratic accountability /Robert D. Behn1st ed.Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Pressc20011 online resource (327 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8157-0862-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.What do we mean by accountability, anyway? -- Performance and the new public management -- The traditional, public-administration paradigm of accountability -- The questions of democratic accountability -- Discretion and trust -- Retrospective accountability for performance -- A new compact of mutual, collective responsibility -- The cooperation challenge -- Fostering cooperation with conventions and norms -- Evolving a charter agency -- 360-degree accountability for performance.Traditionally, American government has created detailed, formal procedures to ensure that its agencies and employees are accountable for finances and fairness. Now in the interest of improved performance, we are asking our front-line workers to be more responsive, we are urging our middle managers to be innovative, and we are exhorting our public executives to be entrepreneurial. Yet what is the theory of democratic accountability that empowers public employees to exercise such discretion while still ensuring that we remain a government of laws? How can government be responsive to the needs of individual citizens and still remain accountable to the entire polity? In Rethinking Democratic Accountability, Robert D. Behn examines the ambiguities, contradictions, and inadequacies in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance. Weaving wry observations with political theory, Behn suggests a new model of accountability--with "compacts of collective, mutual responsibility"--to address new paradigms for public management.Administrative responsibilityUnited StatesAdministrative agenciesUnited StatesManagementUnited StatesOfficials and employeesDisciplineUnited StatesOfficials and employeesRating ofAdministrative responsibilityAdministrative agenciesManagement.352.3/5/0973Behn Robert D1034600MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826141603321Rethinking democratic accountability4009792UNINA