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Overpromising and Underperforming? : Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes /

This is the first volume to specifically analyse the accountability features of Canadian intergovernmental agreements and to do so systematically across policy sectors. Drawing on the experiences of other federal systems and multilevel governance structures, the contributors investigate how public r...

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Otros Autores: White, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1967- (Editor ), Simmons, Julie M., 1974- (Editor ), Graefe, Peter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • PART 1 Establishing Benchmarks
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Accountability and Governance / Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons, Linda A. White
  • PART II Emerging Accountability Structures: Canadian Case Studies
  • Chapter 2: Intergovernmental Accountability and Health Care: Reflections on the Recent Canadian Experience / Patrick Fafard
  • Chapter 3: The National Child Benefit: Collective Accountability through Public Reporting / Julie M. Simmons
  • Chapter 4: Democratizing Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Community Engagement and Public Reporting In Early Learning and Child Care in Canada / Tammy Findlay
  • Chapter 5: Evolving Federal-Provincial Accountability Regimes in Active Labour Market Policy / Thomas Klassen and Donna Wood
  • Chapter 6: Accountability in Labour Market Policies for Persons with Disabilities / Peter Graefe and Mario Levesque
  • Chapter 7: Multi-Level Governance, Infrastructure, and the Transformation of Accountability Regimes in Canada / Luc Turgeon and Josh Hjartarson
  • PART III Alternative Accountabilities: Comparative and Normative Examples
  • Chapter 8: Convergence Through Benchmarking and Policy Learning: The Impact of the Open Method of Coordination on Social Policy within the European Union / Daniel V. Preece
  • Chapter 9: Global Governance and Canadian Federalism: Reconciling External Accountability Obligations through Internal Accountability Practices Grace Skogstad
  • Chapter 10: The No Child Left Behind Act and Educational Accountability in the United States / Paul Manna
  • Chapter 11: Internal Answerability and Intergovernmental Policy Learning: Accountability in Canadian Mandatory Education / Jennifer Wallner
  • Chapter 12: Accountability Regimes for Federal Social Transfers: An Exercise in Deconstruction and Reconstruction / Barbara Cameron
  • Chapter 13: Panacea or Peril? Intergovernmental Accountability and the Auditor General / Amy Nugent and Julie M. Simmons
  • PART IV Conclusion
  • Chapter 14: Conclusion: Whither Accountability? / Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons and Linda A. White.