Ferry, L. and Eckersley, P. and Zakaria, Z. (2015) 'Accountability and transparency in English local government : moving from ‘matching parts’ to ‘awkward couple’?', Financial accountability and management., 31 (3). pp. 345-361.
Abstract
Although excessive transparency and accountability demands can have a counterproductive effect on organisational performance (Bovens, 2005), longstanding hierarchical accountability structures to ensure financial conformance in English local government continue to endure. Interestingly however, the previously top-down regime for performance accountability in English local government has been replaced by bottom-up mechanisms such as greater transparency and a more open market for public services. Using the framework developed by Hood (2010), this paper will show how such reforms mean that transparency and accountability are moving from being ‘matching parts’ to an ‘awkward couple’, and how this has significant implications for public services.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Accountability, Transparency, English local government, Budgeting, Performance measurement. |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (397Kb) |
| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (95Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faam.12060 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2015 The Authors Financial Accountability & Management Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 27 October 2015 |
| Date of first online publication: | 03 July 2015 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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