Accountability and democracy: the pitfalls and promise of popular control

Abstract

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