Data di Pubblicazione:
2007
Citazione:
Managerial and Political Accountability: the widening gap in the organisation of welfare / P. Mattei. - In: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES. - ISSN 0020-8523. - 73:3(2007 Sep), pp. 365-387.
Abstract:
This article revisits the assumption that the welfare delivery state does not fit into
the vertical or hierarchical model of political accountability in light of its recent
organizational arrangements. Although a distinction in any analytical framework
between managerial and political accountability bears some fruit, the replacement
of the latter with the former is contestable and misleading. In contrast to the
claims that managerial accountability is a technical and neutral exercise in the
application of politics-free criteria, and, as such, it more readily fits the complexity
of the 21st-century welfare state, this article suggests that the new organizational
arrangements of state schools and hospitals indicate that traditional forms of
accountability to elected officials have not withered. The process of developing
new welfare state organizational arrangements cannot be divorced from fundamental
institutional questions about each democracy. By empirically investigating
the effects of the introduction of managerialism on democratic accountability in
Britain and Germany, the article aims to further our understanding of the link
between the managerial and political dimensions of accountability in the welfare
delivery state.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
P. Mattei
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