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Democracy or Accountability? Governance and Social Spending in Africa

Author(s)
Kumah, Stephanie  
Brazys, Samuel  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7437
Date Issued
2016-01-15
Date Available
2017-07-15T01:00:08Z
Abstract
In recent years, democracy has often served as shorthand for good governance when considering what facilitates development-friendly public expenditure. While recognising the sufficiency of democracy, we argue that it is accountability, achievable outside full democracy, that is the necessary component of governance. However, vague conceptualisations of accountability as 'responsiveness' or 'answerability' have prevented empirical work from exploring the relationship between accountability and public spending. In this paper we develop an understanding of accountability as the interaction between opposition, transparency, and enforcement and test its impact on social spending in Africa in both the presence and absence of electoral institutions.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Journal
Journal of Development Studies
Volume
52
Issue
2
Start Page
286
End Page
299
Copyright (Published Version)
2016 Taylor and Francis
Subjects

Accountability

Developing countries

Public spending

DOI
10.1080/00220388.2015.1087513
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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