that contributes to the accountability of EU politics. Drawing on principal-agent-theory, it will show that national … parliamentary majority and the opposition use accountability mechanisms, which are predominantly invoked by the opposition in …

Democratic accountability is an aspect that seems to have been almost entirely overlooked in the discussions on the … sustain the claim that foreign policy and diplomacy are incompatible with democratic decision-making and accountability. What … democracy-building processes in various countries around the world, ensuring democratic accountability necessarily becomes a key …

School accountability--the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures …--is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and … Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …

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

leader accountability, taking into account that there is an autocratic upper government. We exploit variation in the timing … accountability. …