Democratic Accountability and International Human Development - Couverture souple

Afzal, Kamran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138057215 ISBN 13 : 9781138057210

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book significantly expands the human development approach. It concentrates on public spending for human development and shows how the broader paradigm of public accountability - extending beyond democratic accountability to also include bureaucratic and judicial institutions as well as modes of tax and resource mobilisation - can best explain how states allocate public resources for human development. In this sense, as this book finds, enhancing human capabilities requires not only effective party competition and fair elections, but also a particular nesting of public organisational structures that are tied to taxpaying citizens in an undisturbed chain of accountability. This volume offers some critical lessons for institutional design and the way we approach the question of human development, particularly in the less developed states.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kamran Ali Afzal is a career civil servant in Pakistan and has served on a range of administrative and policymaking positions over the past twenty years. He earned his PhD in political economy from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and his areas of interest include public policy, governance, public finance, and social development.

Mark Considine is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include public governance studies, comparative social policy, reform of higher education and public service reform.　

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138057215
• ISBN 13: 9781138057210
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
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