One of the key functions environmental law is to amplify voice those seeking hold powerful account for their performance. Now that UK has exited EU’s legal and institutional architecture, we turn domestic glimpse future accountability. This paper reviews measures in Environment Bill. Accountability are only ever as effective energy making use them. argues civil society needs act strategically c...

Victims of Clergy Abuse Linkup (VOCAL/Linkup) was among the first and most prominent advocacy organizations for American survivors childhood clergy sexual abuse. recognized spiritual dimensions their abuse, which they called "soul murder," sought healing justice through a systemic distinctively Catholic discourse about divine powers "voice." This article names that "a theology voice" analyzes V...

How does everyday politics of participation manifest in post-disaster contexts? Can a disaster prompt political system to shift more inclusive, open, and participatory governance direction? In this article, we draw on our ethnographic work the Philippines aftermath Typhoon Haiyan 2013 Nepal after Gorkha Earthquake 2015 explore these questions. Our comparative analysis shows that attempts at ins...

ODI is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI Project Briefings provide a focused and specialised summary of a project, a country study or regional analysis. Project Briefing T he development industry is increasingly pushing practitioners to achieve results, and to do better in demonstrating what works, what does not, and explaining why...

this study examines the mediating role of sense of powerlessness on the relationship between the perception of accountability and citizenship participation among the students of university of tehran. lack of proper accountability can lead to a sense of powerlessness for students to influencing the processes and cause them no incentive to provide cooperation. accordingly, accountability variable...

One of the central features of the 'rise' of the regulatory state has been the shift of particular policy functions to non-majoritarian institutions. Issues of accountability and transparency have therefore moved to the foreground of regulatory debates, both in the applied and academic public policy literature. This paper argues that a narrow debate on parliamentary oversight is too limited and...