Public Accountability in a New Institutional Environment

New Public Management Approach and Accountability

A new paradigm for public management, called “New Public Management”, has emerged since 1980s that is formed to confront the present problems. This model is originated from the fusion of economic theories and private sector management techniques. The most important particulars of this model are decreasing government size, the decentralization of management authority, the emphasis on efficiency,...

Multitask, Accountability, and Institutional Design

We analyze whether unified or divided authority is optimal for voter welfare in a political agency model where multi-task issues arise from correlation in task-specific competences. The model highlights trade-offs within and across facets of voter welfare. Regarding incentives, unified authority yields higher total effort, but an allocation of that effort across tasks less fully aligned with vo...

Balancing Accountability and Efficiency in a More Competitive Public Sector Environment

Measuring the Public Accountability of New Modes of Governance

We present an encompassing research endeavour on the public accountability of new modes of governance in Europe. The aim of this project is to measure the salience, tonality and framing of regulatory bodies and public interest organisations in newspaper coverage and parliamentary debates over the last 15 years. In order to achieve this, we use language technology which is still underused in pol...

Response: The New Environment of Accountability for OTPs

William Cornely: With respect to retention of patients in opioid treatment, most drug-free programs have already made the transition to viewing the patient as a customer who must be retained, and their experience may be helpful to methadone programs. What other outcomes, besides retention, should be considered for accountability? For example, what about having someone off methadone in a year or...