Anna Mlynarska-Sobaczewska, Jacek Zalesny

Public Accountability and Constitutional Law (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses public accountability of political actors in contemporary democratic states. It identifies paths of executing accountability in the electoral process and in traditional instruments of parliamentary scrutiny. It tracks how well-known mechanisms of democracy fulfil the need to report on the exercising of an entrusted power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040251836
• Artikelnr.: 72278632

Autorenporträt

Anna Mlynarska-Sobaczewska is a lawyer and a professor in the Department of Constitutional Law and European Research at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has been a visiting scholar in law schools in the United States, Italy, Germany, Vietnam (Hanoi) and Spain.

Jacek Zalesny is a lawyer, political scientist and associate professor in the Department of Political Systems of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include the political systems of contemporary states, the law-making process and institutions of legal protection.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accountability in constitutional law - assumptions and meaning; 2. On
the illusory nature of political representation and the illusion of its
accountability; 3. Regulatory impact assessment ex post as an
accountability instrument: Why does it fail to work?; 4. Parliamentary
scrutiny: Toolbox of institutional accountability of government; 5.
Judicial accountability - where to look for it and why is it not there?; 6.
Non-state actors in the constitutional framework: Political impact without
public accountability; Conclusions