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In: Cass Series Peacekeeping; Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism, p. 63-88
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In: Cass Series Peacekeeping; Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism, p. 63-88
In: Elements of Effective Governance; Public Administration and Public Policy, p. 125-144
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers
ISSN: 1545-6846
The importance of good governance, specifically the presence of accountability among developing countries in managing development aid from official aid agencies, has been significantly recognized. The Republic of the Philippines has been struggling to address the issue of corruption not only in aid management but also in the government as a whole. The contribution of the accountability systems of a recipient government to address corruption in aid management and to make aid more effective is analyzed here.
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Charter schools involve a trading of autonomy for accountability. This accountability comes through two forces—markets through the choices of parents and students, and accountability to government through the writing of contracts that must be renewed for schools to continue to operate. Charter schools are supposed to be more accountable for educational performance than traditional public schools because authorizers have the ability to revoke charter contracts. Here, I focus on one central component of accountability to government: performance accountability or accountability for educational outcomes to charter school authorizers through the revocation or non-renewal of charter contracts. In this paper, I suggest that contract-based accountability for educational performance in charter schools may not be working as proponents argued it would. This article explores some explanations for why there are very few examples of charter schools that have been closed primarily because of failure to demonstrate educational performance or improvement. Future work will need to test if these challenges for authorizers hold in a variety of contexts. The conclusion examines the implications of these findings for the future of charter school accountability.
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In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Volume 45, Issue 1, p. 129-132
ISSN: 1555-2934
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Volume 19, Issue 6, p. 845-863
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Volume 90, Issue 1, p. 294-295
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Public performance & management review, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 594-619
ISSN: 1530-9576
In: Delegated Governance and the British State, p. 167-204
In: The European System of Central Banks: An Autonomous Actor?, p. 213-222
In: Social & environmental accounting journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 19-19
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Volume 50, Issue 1, p. 71-83
ISSN: 1460-2482