Overpromising and Underperforming? : : Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes / / ed. by Peter Graefe, Julie Simmons, Linda A. White.

• MitwirkendeR: Cameron, Barbara,; Dutil, Patrice,; Fafard, Patrick,; Findlay, Tammy,; Graefe, Peter,; Hjartarson, Josh,; Klassen, Thomas R.,; Levesque, Mario,; Manna, Paul,; Nugent, Amy,; Preece, Daniel V.,; Simmons, Julie M.,; Skogstad, Grace,; Turgeon, Luc,; Wallner, Jennifer,; White, Linda A.,; Wood, Donna E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Graefe, Peter,; Simmons, Julie,; White, Linda A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very specific policy sectors - even though this information is essential to policy makers in Canada and beyond. Overpromising and Underperforming? offers a deeper analysis of the use of new accountability mechanisms, paying particular attention to areas in which federal spending power is used.This is the first volume to specifically analyse the accountability features of Canadian intergovernmental agreements and to do so systematically across policy sectors. Drawing on the experiences of other federal systems and multilevel governance structures, the contributors investigate how public reporting has been used in various policy fields and the impact it has had on policy-making and intergovernmental relations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Acronyms -- List of Tables -- PART ONE. Establishing Benchmarks -- 1. Introduction: Accountability and Governance -- PART TWO. Emerging Accountability? Structures: Canadian Case Studies -- 2. Intergovernmental Accountability and Health Care: Reflections on the Recent Canadian Experience -- 3. The National Child Benefit: Collective Accountability through Public Reporting -- 4. Democratizing Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Community Engagement and Public Reporting in Early Learning and Child Care in Canada -- 5. Evolving Federal-Provincial Accountability Regimes in Active Labour Market Policy -- 6. Accountability in Labour Market Policies for Persons with Disabilities -- 7. Multi-Level Governance, Infrastructure, and the Transformation of Accountability Regimes in Canada -- PART THREE. Alternative Accountabilities: Comparative and Normative Examples -- 8. Convergence through Benchmarking and Policy Learning: The Impact of the Open Method of Coordination on Social Policy within the European Union -- 9. Global Governance and Canadian Federalism: Reconciling External Accountability Obligations through Internal Accountability Practices -- 10. The No Child Left Behind Act and Educational Accountability in the United States -- 11. Internal Answerability and Intergovernmental Policy Learning: Accountability in Canadian Mandatory Education -- 12. Accountability Regimes for Federal Social Transfers: An Exercise in Deconstruction and Reconstruction -- 13. Panacea or Peril? Intergovernmental Accountability and the Auditor General -- PART FOUR. Conclusion -- 14. Conclusion: Whither Accountability? -- Contributors -- Index