This study documents the weaknesses of public oversight and participation in policymaking in Hungary and Poland. It discusses five alternative routes to accountability including European Union oversight, constitutional institutions such as presidents and courts, devolution to lower-level governments, the use of neo-corporatist bodies, and open-ended participation rights.
This study documents the weaknesses of public oversight and participation in policymaking in Hungary and Poland. It discusses five alternative routes to accountability including European Union oversight, constitutional institutions such as presidents and courts, devolution to lower-level governments, the use of neo-corporatist bodies, and open-ended participation rights.
Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) at Yale University, Connecticut. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, New York. She has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a Research Fellow at the World Bank, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, and Collegium Budapest. Professor Rose-Ackerman is the author of Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform (Cambridge, 1999, with subsequent translations into nine languages), Controlling Environmental Policy and The Nonprofit Enterprise in Market Economies. She is one of the editors of Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition and Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition. Both these books as well as From Elections to Democracy are products of the project, Honesty and Trust in Post-Socialist Transition, jointly organized by the author and János Kornai at Collegium Budapest. Professor Rose-Ackerman has also published widely in law, economics and policy journals. Her research interests include comparative regulatory law and policy, the political economy of corruption, public policy and administrative law, and law and economics.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Policymaking accountability and democratic consolidation; 2. Alternative routes to policymaking accountability; 3. The legacy of the past; 4. External accountability and the European Union; 5. Oversight; 6. Decentralized political accountability; 7. Public participation in policymaking: government procedures; 8. Civil society groups: overview; 9. Environmental advocacy organizations in Hungary; 10. Student and youth organizations in Poland; 11. Democratic consolidation and policymaking accountability.
1. Policymaking accountability and democratic consolidation; 2. Alternative routes to policymaking accountability; 3. The legacy of the past; 4. External accountability and the European Union; 5. Oversight; 6. Decentralized political accountability; 7. Public participation in policymaking: government procedures; 8. Civil society groups: overview; 9. Environmental advocacy organizations in Hungary; 10. Student and youth organizations in Poland; 11. Democratic consolidation and policymaking accountability.
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