Where Accountability Meets Governance: Globalization, Participation and Corruption

Having outlined the book’s main arguments and introduced the conceptual distinctions that must inform any analysis of accountability, we now situate accountability within three key debates in the study of governance in developing countries. This chapter’s main purpose is to advance further the set of theoretical propositions set forth in Chapter 1. These concern three relationships: (1) between globalization and the upsurge in accountability-seeking; (2) between accountability processes and participation (or ‘voice’), including the implications for conceptions of human development; and (3) between different types of accountability failure. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.