Making accountability work : dilemmas for evaluation and for audit / edited by Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Jeremy Lonsdale and Burt Perrin ; with a foreword by Amitai Etzioni
Contents -- Dedication to Ray C. Rist -- Foreword -- Part One Modern- Day Accountability: Evaluation and Audit Challenged -- 1 Accountability� The Challenges for Two Professions Introduction -- 2 Accountability, a Classic Concept in Modern Contexts: Implications for Evaluation and for Auditing Roles -- 3 Towards a New View of Accountability -- Part Two The Changing Accountability of the State -- 4 Evaluation for Accountability: Myth or Reality? -- 5 Walking a Tightrope? The Changing Role of State Audit in Accountability Regimes in Europe
6 Public Sector Auditing for Accountability: New Directions, New Tricks?7 New Wine in Old Bottles? When Audit, Accountability, and Evaluation Meet -- 8 Checking Out? Accountability and Evaluation in the British Regulatory State -- Part Three New Perspectives on Accountability: Case Studies -- 9 Results- Oriented Budgeting and Policy Evaluation: Accountable for Learning -- 10 Making Policy Interventions More Effective: The Case for Accountability Up and Accountability Down
11 How Does Evaluation Foster Accountability for Performance? Tracing Accountability Lines and Evaluation Impact within the World Bank and the Italian Local Health- Care Providers112 Adapting Evaluation and Accountability Systems to Public Management Contexts -- Part Four Conclusion -- 13 How Evaluation and Auditing Can Help Bring Accountability into the Twenty- First Century -- About the Authors -- Index
