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Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement. Democracy is just an empty exercise if those in power cannot be held accountable in public for their acts and omissions, for their decisions, their policies, and their expenditures.

This book offers a finely detailed and richly informed consideration of accountability in both government and the contemporary world of governance. Twenty-five leading experts cover varying aspects of the accountability movement, including multiple and competing accountabilities, measuring accountability, accountability and democratic legitimacy, and accountability and information technology, and apply them to governments, quasi-governments, non-government organizations, governance organizations, and voluntary organizations. Together they provide the most comprehensive consideration of accountability currently available, with a blend of theoretical, empirical, and applied approaches.

 H. George Frederickson is the Edwin O.Stene Distinguised Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Spirit of Public Administration and Social Equity and Public Administration: Origin, Developments and Applications, and is a co-author of The Public Administration Theory Primer and The Adapted City: Institutional Dynamics and Structural Change. He is the Editor -in-chief of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.