Bureaucratic Accountability: Problems and Paradoxes; Panaceas and (Occasionally) Palliatives

1983 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Richard C. Elling ◽  
Harvey Tucker ◽  
Harmon Zeigler ◽  
James Clay Thompson ◽  
Bernard Rosen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bureaucratic Accountability

scholarly journals #Metoo/#Aidtoo and Creating an Intersectional Feminist NPO/NGO Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Gillespie ◽  
Roseanne M. Mirabella ◽  
Angela M. Eikenberry
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Bureaucratic Accountability

AbstractThe purpose of this essay is to explore the implications of #metoo and #aidtoo for understanding nonprofit/nongovernmental organization (NPO/NGO) theory and practice. We provide an overview of how women have experienced sexual violence in the context of NPOs/NGOs and draw on an intersectional feminist theory lens to highlight the context that enables violence to persist, and which requires more than implementing bureaucratic accountability reforms. We end by discussing potential avenues for creating change to end such violence.

scholarly journals Reviewing Procedure vs. Judging Substance: How Increasing Bureaucratic Oversight Can Reduce Bureaucratic Accountability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian R Turner
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Review Procedure ◽  
Bureaucratic Oversight ◽  
Bureaucratic Accountability

How does the scope of review affect bureaucratic policymaking? To explore this question, I consider a policymaking environment in which an expert agency develops policy that is upheld or overturned by an overseer who may have different policy goals. The agency can affect the quality of implementation through effort investments in addition to choosing the substantive content of policy. Under procedural review the overseer only reviews the agency’s effort, which allows the agency to fully utilize its expertise. Substantive review also tasks the overseer with judging agencies’ substantive policy choices, which can lead the agency to disregard its superior information and obfuscate to avoid reversal. Depending on the policy environment, this dynamic can either benefit or harm the overseer. In some cases the overseer can be made better off by having less transparent review institutions; that is, institutions that direct the overseer to only review procedure and preclude judging substance.

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