Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World

This book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. It is argued here that accountability has emerged to become a concept with adjectives and there is a real need to properly understand accountability in an increasingly fractured world.

List of contents

List of Contributors. List of Tables, Diagrams and Figures. Glossary. Acknowledgements. 1. Accountability: Always a Chameleon? (Matthew Flinders, Gergana Dimova and Chris Monaghan) 2. Accountability: A Concept with Adjectives (Matthew Flinders, Gergana Dimova and Chris Monaghan) PART I. POWER 3. Authoritarian Accountability (Rogério Christofoletti, Fernando O. Paulino and Danilo Rothberg) 4. Clashing Accountability (Kenneth Stiller and Giuseppe Spatafora) 5. Post-Colonial Layered Accountability (Sue Farran) PART II. POLITICS 6. Mañana Accountability (Iosif Kovras and Stefano Pagliari) 7. Post-Crisis Accountability (Ieva Daniela Beinarovi¿a) 8. Algorithmic Accountability (Joseph Donia) PART III. PARTICULARITIES 9. Social Accountability (Enrique Peruzzotti) 10. Judicial Disciplinary Accountability (Piotr Mikuli) 11. Supplementary Accountability (Lars Brummel) 12. Non-Governmental Organisation Accountability (Domenico Carolei). Index.

About the author

Matthew Flinders is a Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Vice President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Gergana Dimova is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University London.
Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew (University of Sheffield Flinders
• Assisted by: Gergana Dimova (Editor), Flinders Matthew (Editor), Monaghan Chris (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032588483
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258848-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Jurisprudence, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Political structures / systems: democracy