Accountability in the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery

Ritchie, J.

doi:10.1080/1024529042000271434

Accountability in the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery

Ritchie, J.

Authors

J. Ritchie

Abstract

Despite claims that accountability enables 'good governance' proper, its specific origins, character and limitations are not yet fully clear. In order to explicate the nature of accountability better this paper will, therefore, formulate and apply its own comparative framework to the case of the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery in particular. In so doing it finds that, even when accountability emerged as a mid-crisis issue that was dramatically reconfigured for any due recovery later, it was not itself then sufficiently explicated for all the implications and consequences to be realized fully. Once it is explicated more fully, however, the further implications and consequences of changing accountability for economic governance question precisely what is to be expected from accountability per se.

Citation

Ritchie, J. (2004). Accountability in the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery. Competition & Change, 8(2), 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/1024529042000271434

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2004-05
Deposit Date	Mar 19, 2007
Publicly Available Date	Apr 28, 2009
Journal	Competition and Change
Print ISSN	1024-5294
Electronic ISSN	1477-2221
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	8
Issue	2
Pages	91-104
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/1024529042000271434
Keywords	Accountability, Economic governance, East Asia, Unrealized implications, Consequences.