Accountability and Coalitions: Evidence from a Negotiation Experiment

Bouwman, Robin; Thiel, Sandra van; Deemen, Ad van; Rouwette, E.A.J.A.

doi:10.1111/puar.12858

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“…Where there are no or fewer hierarchical relationships between government actors and other actors, contracts are important accountability instruments. As elaborated elsewhere (Tasan-Kok et al, 2019), they include control mechanisms that aim to increase ‘administrative performance, enhance integrity of public governance, and render perceptions of trustworthiness and transparency with citizens’ (Bouwman et al, 2018: 38). Bovens (2007) and other scholars (Dubnick, 2005; Romzek et al, 2012) characterise accountability as a ‘social relationship’: in it, an accountor feels an obligation to explain and to justify its conducts to an accountee (Bovens, 2007).…”

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Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance: Flexibility and leeway in urban regeneration projects

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Taşan‐Kok

2020

Urban Studies

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Urban regeneration projects involve complex contractual deals between public- and private-sector actors. Critics contend that contracts hamper opportunities for flexibility and change in these projects due to strict provisions that are incorporated in legal agreements. This article offers contrary empirical insights based on a study of contractual arrangements for urban regeneration projects in the Netherlands, including an analysis of interviews and confidential documents. It zooms in on provisions on safeguarding and adaptation, finding that urban regeneration projects remain receptive to flexibility and change. Public-sector actors use their room to manoeuvre while operating contracts, seeking to secure social relations and keep projects going. This article taps into data sources that are difficult to access, addressing what is included in contracts and how they are used by practitioners, and presents questions for future research on contracts in the urban built environment.

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Section: What Do Contracts Do?mentioning

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Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance: Flexibility and leeway in urban regeneration projects

Hurk

Taşan‐Kok

2020

Urban Studies

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“…The issue of accountability has long been a topic of both political and academic debate dating back to the Athenian city-state (Held, 2006), where it referred to a 'democratic politics of virtue' on how people should behave (Atkinson, Tallon, & Williams, 2015). Today, accountability refers to control mechanisms that are claimed to increase administrative performance, enhance integrity of public governance, and render perceptions of trustworthiness and transparency with citizens (Bouwman et al, 2018). In an increasingly property-led planning environment where urban development is shaped through projects, contractual relations establish accountability mechanisms between the state, local governments, and private sector actors in line with regulation that secures accountability of the responsible actor.…”

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“…Urban planning literature provides some interesting theoretical discussions on public interest (Alexander, 2002;Campbell & Marshall, 2002a, 2002bInnes, 1995) but the concept of public accountability has been mainly studied and operationalized by public administration scholars (Bouwman, van Thiel, van Deemen, & Rouwette, 2018;Bovens, 2007aBovens, , 2007bBovens, Schillemans, & Hart, 2008;Erkkilä, 2007). As a result, the term has an abstract meaning in planning scholarship and is not often operationalized through empirical research.…”

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Changing public accountability mechanisms in the governance of Dutch urban regeneration

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European Planning Studies

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Contemporary urban planning dynamics are based on negotiation and contractual relations, creating fragmented planning processes. On the one hand, they trigger technocratic forms of governance, which require the 'legal instrumentalisation' of planning in a piecemeal approach ensuring legal certainty. On the other hand, these processes require flexibility to enable easy, fast and efficient forms of implementation due to the increasing involvement of private sector actors in urban development. This article unravels the influence of these conflicting dynamics on the fundamentals of urban planning practices by focusing on changing public accountability mechanisms created through contractual relationships between public and private sector agencies. Dutch urban regeneration has demonstrated changing governance principles and dynamics in the last three decades. Representing instrumental and institutional measures, we connect accountability mechanisms to these changes and argue that they 'co-exist' in multiple forms across different contexts. This article embeds this evolution in wider theoretical discussions on the changing relationships between public and private sector actors in urban governance relative to the changing role of the state, and it addresses questions on who can be held accountable, and to what extent, when public sector actors are increasingly retreating from regulatory practices while private sector actors play increasingly prominent roles.

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“…Já para Bernardes, Santos e Rover (2015, p. 774), "a accountability demanda um efetivo empowerment (empoderamento) dos cidadãos, de modo a permitir que eles transformem todas as informações em conhecimento e atuem no processo de coprodução de políticas públicas". De acordo com Bouwman et al (2018), a accountability é muitas vezes vista como um instrumento para prevenir a corrupção daqueles que estão no poder, e também como um mecanismo de controle democrático que supostamente aumenta o desempenho, melhora a integridade da governança pública e rende percepções de confiabilidade e transparência com os cidadãos.…”

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Resgate Conceitual De Accountability: Proposta De Categorização a Partir De Estudo Bibliométrico

Duarte

Zouain

2019

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RESUMOAccountability é uma palavra cada vez mais utilizada e debatida em variados contextos, tanto na academia quanto na sociedade em geral, sendo exaustivamente discutido seu significado. Nesse sentido, o presente estudo procura explorar a forma como tem sido pesquisado o conceito e a prática da accountability, a partir de um resgate sobre como se entende esse conceito em variados contextos históricos, bem como propor uma definição e uma categorização que sintetize as várias tipologias já encontradas na literatura. Para tal, foi realizado estudo com técnicas de bibliometria e de análise de conteúdo com dezesseis obras selecionadas que apresentam variadas categorizações para o estudo da accountability. Apesar da indefinição do conceito de accountability, que não ocorre apenas em língua portuguesa, é proposta uma definição abrangente, que possa ser aplicada nos mais variados contextos. Como síntese das tipologias encontradas na literatura, são propostas cinco categorias de accountability: Política, Legal, Mútua, Hierárquica e Profissional.Palavras-chave: Accountability. Categorização. Literatura científica. Bibliometria. Análise de citação 1 . ABSTRACTAccountability is a word increasingly used and debated in various contexts, both in academia and in society in general, and its meaning is thoroughly discussed. In this sense, the present study seeks to explore the way in which the concept and practice of accountability has been researched, starting from a rescue about how this concept is understood in various historical

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Accountability and Coalitions: Evidence from a Negotiation Experiment

Abstract: • The consequences of accountability-such as sanctions-have little impact on the performance of negotiators when negotiations are repeated.

Cited by 13 publications

References 64 publications

Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance: Flexibility and leeway in urban regeneration projects

Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance: Flexibility and leeway in urban regeneration projects

Changing public accountability mechanisms in the governance of Dutch urban regeneration

Resgate Conceitual De Accountability: Proposta De Categorização a Partir De Estudo Bibliométrico

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