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1. Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency‐CEO's to central government

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Schillemans, Thomas, Overman, Sjors, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Fredriksson, Magnus, Laegreid, Per, Maggetti, Martino, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Rubecksen, Kristin, Rykkja, Lise Hellebø, Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg, Smullen, Amanda, Wood, Matt, Bestuur en beleid, UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Bestuur en beleid, and UU LEG Research USG Public Matters

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Marketing, ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Corporate governance, Perspective (graphical), Control (management), ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING, Public relations, Perception, Central government, Accountability, Agency (sociology), business, Autonomy, media_common
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The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms in on their CEO's and their perceptions of hierarchical accountability. The article focuses on felt accountability, denoting the manager's (a) expectation to have to explain substantive decisions to a parent department perceived to be (b) legitimate and (c) to have the expertise to evaluate those decisions. We explore felt accountability of agency‐CEO's and its institutional antecedents with a survey in seven countries combining insights from public administration and psychology. Our bottom‐up perspective reveals close connections between de facto control practices rather than formal institutional characteristics and felt accountability of CEO's of agencies. We contend that felt accountability is a crucial cog aligning accountability holders' expectations and behaviors by CEO's. publishedVersion

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2021

2. Conflictual accountability : behavioral responses to conflictual accountability of agencies

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Schillemans, Thomas, Overman, Sjors, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Fredriksson, Magnus, Laegreid, Per, Maggetti, Martino, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Rubecksen, Kristin, Rykkja, Lise H., Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg, Smullen, Amanda, Verhoest, Koen, Wood, Matthew, Bestuur en beleid, UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Bestuur en beleid, and UU LEG Research USG Public Matters

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Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Corporate governance, 05 social sciences, Public administration, 0506 political science, accountability, governance, Political science, 0502 economics and business, Accountability, 050602 political science & public administration, agencies, conflictual accountability, Law, 050203 business & management
Abstract

In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how conflictual accountability regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s and their political principals. The presence of conflictual accountability is experienced as a major challenge and is associated with important behavioral responses by those CEO’s. This article demonstrates empirically how conflictual accountability is related to (a) controlling behaviors by principals, (b) constituency building behaviors by agencies, and (c) a general pattern of intensified contacts and information processing by both parties.

Published
2021

3. Daring to be a Daniel: The Pathology of Politicized Accountability in a Monitory Democracy.

Author

Flinders, Matthew

Subjects
POLITICAL accountability, DEMOCRACY, COMMUNITY-school relationships, PUBLIC interest groups, AUDITING procedures, INDEPENDENT regulatory commissions, FREEDOM of information, PUBLIC support, POLITICIANS
Abstract

This article attempts to make a bold and provocative argument not just about the state of accountability research as a field of inquiry but also about the gap that has apparently emerged between the governors and the governed (and the professional responsibilities of scholars beyond academe in terms of public engagement). It emphasizes that “too much accountability can be as problematic as too little” and asks whether it is possible that the transition from “representative” to “monitory” democracy, which is reflected in an increasingly dense and aggressive “accountability industry” (constitutional watchdogs, audit processes, ethical guardians, investigatory agencies, regulatory boards, freedom of information legislation, quasi-judicial commissions, etc.), has actually contributed to the erosion of public support for politicians, political processes, and political institutions? It therefore seeks to challenge a number of “self-evident truths” and dares to be a little brave, to fly some kites, and risk the inevitable misunderstanding and deliberate criticism that attempting to say something different entails. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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2011
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