The Politics of Public Accountability

Download or read book The Politics of Public Accountability written by Guillaume Fontaine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to consistently explain the role of ideas and institutions in policy outcomes, and addresses the problem of how resource nationalism causes a deficit of public accountability in oil producing countries from Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors present a causal mechanism linking ideas and policy outcomes through institutional arrangements, focusing on policy design to describe the role of instruments selection and combination in improving or reducing public accountability through agenda setting, policy formulation, cross-sectorial coordination and political interplays.