Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political,
managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis …

Several studies focusing on different policy sectors, in diverse national and local
environments, find broad convergence toward a policy-making style dominated by …

This paper seeks to explain why the trend towards more cooperative forms of policymaking,
though in all likelihood necessary for policy efficiency and even at first glance promising with …

Abstract As the European Union is turning into a polity, issues of accountability increasingly
have found their way onto political and academic agendas. One recurring issue is whether …

Over the last decades, there has been an increasing demand for making governments and
public officials accountable, and radical reforms have been advocated. There are, however …

Can interest groups and lobbyists--arguably undemocratic institutions--operate in
democratic systems without hindering the people's interests? Karolina Karr's Democracy …

In contrast to the international arena, accountability and civil society have until recently
attracted little attention in the EU context. Civil society is said to play a decisive role in …

Despite widespread disagreement about democratic deficits in the European Union (EU),
most critics begin by conceiving democracy as a problem for the EU. Seeing the EU as …

This article aims to bring the accountability of the EU executive out of the shadows by tracing
the development of the current accountability landscape around the main EU's executive …

Page 1 Dalgſave macmillan Legitimating the European Union Aspirations, Inputs and
Performance Janet Mather Page 2 Legitimating the European Union Page 3 Also by Janet …