Overpromising and Underperforming? : : Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes / / ed. by Peter Graefe, Julie Simmons, Linda A. White.
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 sp...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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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