EU. By this it is usually meant a more important role for mass, competitive, and partisan politics both on the input … choice and enhance accountability. Hix is not correct in believing that politicization along the Left-Right cleavage will … also has a social base (“losers of modernization”) and does not only derive from the deficit of accountability in the EU …

This paper seeks to address problems of accountability in systems of multi-level governance organized around networks … ‘accountability deficit’ created when gaps are left by the accountability machinery of two of the several levels of government … accountability theory in the EU context need to be tested and that new evaluative frameworks may be necessary. Using case studies of …

It has been argued that the European Union suffers from serious accountability deficits. But how can we establish the … existence of accountability deficits? This paper tries to get to grips with the appealing but elusive concept of accountability … conceptual one: what exactly is meant by accountability? Accountability is often used in a very broad sense, as a synonym for a …