The roles of the public servants seem to change towards increased service attitudes influenced by degree of IT Maturity … maturity could increase the quality of the communication between the servant and the client. By increased focus on roles and …

. Moreover, we develop a taxonomy that helps analyse how the different functional roles of aggregators create economic value. We … significant economic value. However, some of the functional roles that aggregators currently fill may become obsolete once market …

fulfilling different aspects of accountability in the public sector. In the Traditional Approach of Accountability, politicians …, in NPM there is a shift in accountability from the political to the managerial sphere and from input and processes to … output and outcomes. The result shows under this approach, operational and managerial accountability fulfill but are not …

The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal … accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … System). In the second part, we present a theory of central bank accountability. Two aspects of accountability are considered …

The democratic accountability of policymaking institutions which are autonomous within delegated mandates has not … received as much attention as their independence. We analyze in a theoretical model the effects of accountability in the form … expectations on target and output stabilization that is not solved with accountability. …

these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …

We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability … performance. We find that the accountability problem can be solved well in the sense that the incumbent exerts effort as if she …