"Rethinking Democratic Accountability"

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This paper is a review of the 2001 work by Robert Behn with the same title. The paper presents a summary of the arguments made in the book and presents an analysis of the work as a whole. Behn presents a theory of a "responsibility compact" that is in-line with the new public administration. His theory is well thought out, but probably impossible in the United States.

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"Robert Behn's work, Rethinking Democratic Accountability, attempts to explain what we mean by accountability and how we can improve the way we use accountability in the public sector. His book, published in 2001, presents the challenges to accountability and offers solutions to the current problem of accountability being focused on the processes and not the performances of government."

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