1st Edition
Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions
By Lina Svedin
Copyright 2012
232 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.
Crises test the fabric of governing institutions. Threatening core societal values, they force elected officials and public servants to... Read more
1. Introduction Part 1: Examining accountability: An empirically grounded theoretical framework 2. Accountability mechanisms in governance 3. A comparative outlook on accountability mechanisms and the exertion of accountability in crises Part 2: Accountability in Sweden: A historical institutional examination 4. Swedish Crises 1931 -2005 5. Mapping three historical developments: crises, accountability, and trust in government 6. Agents in accountability processes – who is held accountable by whom and how? Part 3: Results and trends 7. The formal and informal nature of accountability 8. Public trust in governing institutions 9. Crises, accountability and trust in government: Conclusions
Biography
Lina Svedin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.
