The culture of accountability : : a democratic virtue / / Gianfranco Pasquino and Riccardo Pelizzo.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy Ser.
• VerfasserIn: Pasquino, Gianfranco, 1942-; Pelizzo, Riccardo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Pelizzo, Riccardo,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (187 pages)

This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour political accountability. It examines the channels through which accountability can be secured and the role that accountability plays in ensuring good governance. In addition to problematizing the notion of accountability, the book suggests that it is the product of three different-albeit, related-processes: taking account of voters' preferences, keeping account of voters' preferences, and giving account of one's performance in office. It further explores the relationship between accountability and political culture by analyzing the relationship between accountability and religion, religious denomination, familism, civicness, secularism and postmaterialism, revealing that the level of accountability is influenced by the diffusion of post-material values and by the level of civicness in a given country. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in governance, the political economy of institutions and development, democracy, and more broadly to political science, international relations, political theory, comparative politics, sociology, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of boxes -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the authors -- Introduction -- 1 The three faces of accountability -- 2 Electoral and interinstitutional accountability -- 3 Electoral accountability in non-Western settings -- 4 Accountability: Nonelectoral and systemic -- 5 Religion and accountability -- 6 Religious denominations and good governance -- 7 The cultural determinants of accountability -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.