LEADER 03408nam 22006014a 450 001 9910826141603321 005 20240605004640.0 010 $a0-8157-9810-5 035 $a(CKB)111087027971490 035 $a(OCoLC)614694944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10026246 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237118 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188312 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237118 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191644 035 $a(PQKB)10012176 035 $a(OCoLC)1132224863 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73703 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3004316 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10026246 035 $a(OCoLC)53482664 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004316 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027971490 100 $a20001010d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRethinking democratic accountability /$fRobert D. Behn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8157-0862-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat 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. 330 $aTraditionally, 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. 606 $aAdministrative responsibility$zUnited States 606 $aAdministrative agencies$zUnited States$xManagement 607 $aUnited States$xOfficials and employees$xDiscipline 607 $aUnited States$xOfficials and employees$xRating of 615 0$aAdministrative responsibility 615 0$aAdministrative agencies$xManagement. 676 $a352.3/5/0973 700 $aBehn$b Robert D$01034600 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826141603321 996 $aRethinking democratic accountability$94009792 997 $aUNINA