Responsibility and accountability in the European Commission

Mehde, Veith

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“…A clear example is the political accountability of ministers for civil servants in countries that have a parliamentary system. It is still being debated whether individual European commissioners are accountable for civil servants working in the Commission (Mehde 2003;Van Gerven 2005: 86-8). So far, there is at least a collective accountability of the Commission as a whole to the European Parliament.…”

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Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

Bovens¹

2010

West European Politics

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This paper distinguishes between two main concepts of accountability: accountability as a virtue and accountability as a mechanism. In the former case, accountability is used primarily as a normative concept, as a set of standards for the evaluation of the behaviour of public actors. Accountability or, more precisely, being accountable, is seen as a positive quality in organisations or officials. Hence, accountability studies often focus on normative issues, on the assessment of the actual and active behaviour of public agents. In the latter case, accountability is used in a narrower, descriptive sense. It is seen as an institutional relation or arrangement in which an actor can be held to account by a forum. Here, the locus of accountability studies is not the behaviour of public agents, but the way in which these institutional arrangements operate. The present paper argues that distinguishing more clearly between these two concepts of accountability can solve at least some of the current conceptual confusion and may provide some foundation for comparative and cumulative analysis.Anyone studying accountability will soon discover that it can mean many different things to many different people (

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Section: Accountability As a Mechanismmentioning

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Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

Bovens¹

2010

West European Politics

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EU Agencies and the Politicized Administration

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Vos

2020

The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis

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European Union Public Law

Chalmers

Tomkins

2007

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Since its publication in 2006, European Union Law has quickly established itself as one of the leading textbooks in the field, providing the student with both a comprehensive text and collection of materials. European Union Public Law brings together those sections of the title which look at the constitutional and institutional law of the EU, making it ideal for students undertaking a more focused study of the Union. Its proven successful combination of a highly accessible style, a 'law in context' approach which looks at the law in its wider political and social context and collection of interdisciplinary materials make this an essential text for those students concerned with the institutional and political workings of the Union. European public law students, European studies students and politics students will find this text invaluable, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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Responsibility and accountability in the European Commission

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Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

EU Agencies and the Politicized Administration

European Union Public Law

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