The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia

Accountability mechanisms are touted as a path to “good governance.” But are accountability mechanisms a sure route to achieving the objectives of “good governance”? Limited case studies have offered inconsistent evidence (Blair, 2000; Charlick, 2001; Devas & Grant, 2003). But empirical evidence...

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Main Authors:	Krawczyk, Kelly, Sweet-Cushman, Jennie, Muhula, Raymond
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	good governance fiscal accountability citizen participation corruption
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15401

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spelling	okr-10986-154012021-04-23T14:03:22Z The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia Krawczyk, Kelly Sweet-Cushman, Jennie Muhula, Raymond good governance fiscal accountability citizen participation corruption Accountability mechanisms are touted as a path to “good governance.” But are accountability mechanisms a sure route to achieving the objectives of “good governance”? Limited case studies have offered inconsistent evidence (Blair, 2000; Charlick, 2001; Devas & Grant, 2003). But empirical evidence of the relationships among principles of good governance—high citizen participation, low levels of corruption, high-quality service delivery—and accountability mechanisms is lacking. We examine the effectiveness of accountability mechanisms in Liberia and find relationships between measures of county level fiscal accountability and measures of good governance do not always produce expected results, making fiscal accountability mechanisms no guarantee for achieving goals of good governance. 2013-08-27T21:37:10Z 2013-08-27T21:37:10Z 2013-06-21 Journal Article International Journal of Public Administration 0190-0692 DOI:10.1080/01900692.2013.772199 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15401 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Liberia
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spellingShingle	good governance fiscal accountability citizen participation corruption Krawczyk, Kelly Sweet-Cushman, Jennie Muhula, Raymond The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
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description	Accountability mechanisms are touted as a path to “good governance.” But are accountability mechanisms a sure route to achieving the objectives of “good governance”? Limited case studies have offered inconsistent evidence (Blair, 2000; Charlick, 2001; Devas & Grant, 2003). But empirical evidence of the relationships among principles of good governance—high citizen participation, low levels of corruption, high-quality service delivery—and accountability mechanisms is lacking. We examine the effectiveness of accountability mechanisms in Liberia and find relationships between measures of county level fiscal accountability and measures of good governance do not always produce expected results, making fiscal accountability mechanisms no guarantee for achieving goals of good governance.
format	Journal Article
author	Krawczyk, Kelly Sweet-Cushman, Jennie Muhula, Raymond
author_facet	Krawczyk, Kelly Sweet-Cushman, Jennie Muhula, Raymond
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title	The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
title_short	The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
title_full	The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
title_fullStr	The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
title_full_unstemmed	The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia
title_sort	road to good governance: via the path less accountable? the effectiveness of fiscal accountability in liberia
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15401
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The Road to Good Governance: Via the Path Less Accountable? The Effectiveness of Fiscal Accountability in Liberia

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