The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability
Edited by Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin, and Thomas Schillemans
Author Information
Mark Bovens is a political scientist and lawyer by training. He is Professor of Public Administration at the Utrecht University School of Governance, which he co-founded in 2000. As of 2013, he is a member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in The Hague, the strategic think tank of the Dutch cabinet. He has published 24 monographs and edited volumes and over a hundred articles and chapters in the areas of politics, government, and legal theory. He is an internationally well-known expert in the field of accountability studies and has published a number of seminal books and papers on the topic (eg: The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organizations, CUP 1998; The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit?, OUP 2010).
Robert E. Goodin is a philosopher and political scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Australian National University, as well as Professor of Government at the University of Essex. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Goodin is founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and of the Cambridge University Press series of books on 'Theories of Institutional Design'. He served as general editor of the eleven-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His own work straddles democratic theory (e.g. Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003), empirical welfare-state studies (e.g., The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, CUP 1999; Discretionary Time, CUP 2008) and theoretical reflections on public policy (e.g., Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility, CUP 1998; What's Wrong with Terrorism? Polity 2006).
Thomas Schillemans is a public administration scholar. He received his PhD with honors in 2007 for his thesis on Horizontal Accountability in the Shadow of Hierarchy. His working experience includes seven years at the council for social development, an advisory body of the Dutch government. His research aims to make sense of dispersed practices of governance through empirical studies that examine the interactions of executive agencies, regulators and nonprofit organizations with relevant stakeholders: clients, professional peers and the newsmedia. Public accountability is a key concept in his work. He is assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance.
Contributors:
Mark Bovens, Utrecht University
Thomas Schillemans, Utrecht University
Robert E. Goodin, University of Essex
Melvin J. Dubnick, University of New Hampshire
Mark E. Warren, University of British Columbia
Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
Shefali V. Patil, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Ferdinand Vieider, Social Research Center Belin (WZB)
Philip E. Tetlock, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley
Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo
Christopher Koch, Johannes Gutenberg University
Jens Wüstemann, University of Mannheim
Gijs Jan Brandsma, Utrecht University
Kaifeng Yang, Florida State University
Jane Davison, Royal Holloway
Carol Harlow, London School of Economics
B. Guy Peters, University if Pittsburgh
John Uhr, Australian National University
Erik Hans Klijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Joop F.M. Koppenjan, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bodil Damgaard, University of Roskilde
Jenny M. Lewis, University of Melbourne
Yannis Papadopoulos, University of Lausanne
Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
Barbara S. Romzek, American University
Per Lægreid, University of Bergen
Steven Rathgeb Smith, Syracuse University
Sheldon Leader, University of Essex
Jonathan Koppell, Arizona State University
Mark N. Franklin, European University Institute
Stuart Soroka, McGill University and University of Michigan
Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas
Mark D. Jarvis, University of Victoria
Christie Hayne, Queen's University, Ontario
Steven E. Salterio, Queen's University, Ontario
Steven Van de Walle, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Floor Cornelissen, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam
Robert D. Behn, Harvard University
Colin Scott, University College Dublin
Paul L. Posner, George Mason University
Asif Shahan, University of Dhaka
Albert Meijer, Utrecht University
Pippa Norris, Harvard University
Richard Mulgan, Australian National University
Arie Halachmi, Tennessee State University
Jerry L. Mashaw, Yale University
Sanneke Kuipers, Utrecht University
Paul 't Hart, Utrecht University
Christopher Hood, University of Oxford
Dorothea Greiling, Johannes Kepler University
Mark H. Moore, Harvard University
Melvin J. Dubnick, University of New hampshire
Frank Vibert, London School of Economics
Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield
