Rule of Law, Measuring and Accountability: Problems to be Solved Bottom Up

Barendrecht, Maurits

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“…Resorting to legal procedures will be pivotal in dealing with this issue. Overall, the study supports the assertion that accountability should be enforced through institutional arrangements (established rules and procedures) (Adamolekun, 2010, Bovens, 2010Hall, 2011;Barendrecht, 2011).…”

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“…This implies a communicative relationship between an accounter (person or organization) and an accountee (Bovens, 2010). Accountability as a social mechanism is usually enforced through procedures or institutional arrangements, while others are rules and regulations, such as sanctions (Adamolekun, 2010, Bovens, 2010Hall, 2011;Barendrecht, 2011). However, Aguilar & Saphores (2010) argues that accountability may become dysfunctional if too much emphasis on control leads to proceduralism (a rigid adherence to established procedures).…”

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Anatomy of the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana: Implication for Policy and Accountability

Danso

2019

JPAG

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With the administrative and operational functions of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated among developing countries by the 1980s, privatization was recommended by the IMF/World Bank as a remedy to these institutional deficiencies . This is contingent on the neoclassical debate that private ownership rather than public ownership of management and operations of SOEs results in prudent policy process and accountability. Therefore, this study sought to assess the validity of this assertion by employing the Principal-Agent theory in assessing the level of accountability between the citizens (principal) and the government (agent) during private ownership of service delivery. As a qualitative study, this paper adopts unobtrusive content analysis of an empirical study of the privatization of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL). The government (agent) under the Principal-Agent theory is to ensure that the private operator, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL) respects the terms of divestiture, while upholding the principles of accountability. However, the findings of the study suggest that the failure of government (agent) to uphold core accountability mechanisms such as transparency, accessibility to information, sense of ownership, responsiveness, and conformity to established monitoring and evaluation measures, contributed to the inability to achieve key performance targets, leading to the unsuccessful policy outcome of the privatization contract. This paper, therefore, argues that the failure to adopt accountability mechanisms in the divestiture of SOEs will inevitably compromise administrative policy outcomes.

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Section: The Intellectual Debates On Accountabilitymentioning

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Anatomy of the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana: Implication for Policy and Accountability

Danso

2019

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“…However, unlike macroeconomic qualities, a society's rule of law situation is difficult to measure. 5–8 11 12 Laws are inherently textual and qualitative by nature, and lack similarly clear-cut measures that exist for assessing population health (eg, mortality, disease incidence) or for economies (eg, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation). Furthermore, the true effectiveness of laws depends not just on their content or plain wording, but also on societal attitudes, such as the effort put into law enforcement.…”

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Association of rule of law and health outcomes: an ecological study

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ObjectivesTo explore whether the rule of law is a foundational determinant of health that underlies other socioeconomic, political and cultural factors that have been associated with health outcomes.SettingGlobal project.ParticipantsData set of 96 countries, comprising 91% of the global population.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe following health indicators, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, life expectancy, and cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality rate, were included to explore their association with the rule of law. We used a novel Rule of Law Index, gathered from survey sources, in a cross-sectional and ecological design. The Index is based on eight subindices: (1) Constraints on Government Powers; (2) Absence of Corruption; (3) Order and Security; (4) Fundamental Rights; (5) Open Government; (6) Regulatory Enforcement, (7) Civil Justice; and (8) Criminal Justice.ResultsThe rule of law showed an independent association with infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, life expectancy, and cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality rate, after adjusting for the countries’ level of per capita income, their expenditures in health, their level of political and civil freedom, their Gini measure of inequality and women's status (p<0.05). Rule of law remained significant in all the multivariate models, and the following adjustment for potential confounders remained robust for at least one or more of the health outcomes across all eight subindices of the rule of law. Findings show that the higher the country's level of adherence to the rule of law, the better the health of the population.ConclusionsIt is necessary to start considering the country's adherence to the rule of law as a foundational determinant of health. Health advocates should consider the improvement of rule of law as a tool to improve population health. Conversely, lack of progress in rule of law may constitute a structural barrier to health improvement.

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Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings

Erkkilä

Piironen

2018

Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education

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Rule of Law, Measuring and Accountability: Problems to be Solved Bottom Up

Cited by 30 publications

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Anatomy of the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana: Implication for Policy and Accountability

Anatomy of the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana: Implication for Policy and Accountability

Association of rule of law and health outcomes: an ecological study

Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings

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