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Accountability and Democracy
The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control
Craig T. Borowiak
288 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-977825-6
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Hardback
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20 October 2011
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- Argues a controversial thesis about the incompatibility of democratic accountability with popular sovereignty
- First book-length study of democratic accountability across major democratic theory traditions
- Uniquely bridges a study of democratic theory with international relations scholarship on global governance
Few political concepts are as emblematic of our era as democratic accountability. In a time of political and economic turmoil, in which global forces have destabilized conventional relations of political authority, democratic accountability has come to symbolize both what is absent and what is desired in our polity. Situated at the intersection of democratic theory and international studies, Accountability and Democracy provides an in-depth critical analysis of accountability. Through an engagement with several key democratic traditions, both ancient and modern, the book paints a rich picture of democratic
accountability as a multi-dimensional concept harboring competing imperatives and diverse instantiations. Contrary to dominant views that emphasize discipline and control, Craig Borowiak offers an original and refreshing view of democratic accountability as a source of mutuality, participation, and political transformation. He both creatively engages conventional electoral models of accountability and moves beyond them by situating democratic accountability within more deliberative, participatory and agonistic contexts. Provocatively, the book also challenges deep-seated understandings of democratic accountability as an expression of popular sovereignty. Borowiak instead argues that accountable governance is incompatible with all claims to ultimate authority, regardless of whether they
refer to the demos, the state, or cosmopolitan public law. Rather than conceiving of democratic accountability as a way to legitimize a secure and sovereign political order, the book contends that destabilization and democratic insurgence are indispensable and often neglected facets of democratic accountability practices. For contemporary scholars, practitioners and activists grappling with the challenge of building democratic legitimacy into world politics, the book urges greater reflexivity and nuance in how democratic accountability is evoked and implemented. It offers insights into the myriad ways democratic accountability has been thwarted in the past, while also cultivating a sense of expanded possibility for how it might be conceived for the
present.Readership: Scholars and graduate-level students of political theory, democratic theory, and international studies
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Craig T. Borowiak, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Haverford College
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Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: PUNISHABILITY, REPRESENTATION, CONTROL
1 Managing Republicanism: Accountability Deficits and the U.S. Ratification Debates
2 Disciplining Democracy: The Principal - Agent Model of Accountability
PART TWO: ANSWERABILITY, COMMUNITY, PARTICIPATION
3 Constituting the Polis: Participatory Accountability in Ancient Athens
4 Answering for Exclusion: Deliberative Democracy and the Demands of Justice
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION, MARKETS, DISRUPTION
5 Displacing Democracy: Market Accountability and the Consumer-Citizen
6 Disorienting Cosmopolitanism: Accountability and the Politics of Insurgence
Conclusion: Democratic Accountability as Predicament and Promise
Bibliography
Index
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