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Title: Public Accountability and PPP’s Subtitle: How to obtain good public accountability in complex settings? Author: T om Willems 1 PhD Student University of Antwerp In recent times, ther e has been a shi t in public administration r om Weberian bureaucracies to networ! arrangements with "oint public and pri#ate in#ol#ement$ This shit inluenced signiicantly the ways to hold the go#ernment to account$ The rise o new %&'(inspired auditing, monitoring and regulating bodies has not been able to remedy the shortcomings caused by the diminished steering capacity o the minister $ In this paper we at tempt to des cribe under whi ch conditions goo d pub lic accountabil ity can be achie#ed that is suitable or comp lex present( day public go# ernance$ We assume that public contestat ion strengthens the accountability process by combining traditional and new mechanisms$ 1. Introduction )oth in *landers and internationally, the number o &&& arrangements is steadily growing$ The moti#ation or choosing &&& is usually economic$ It is about eiciency, lexibility, ris! sharing and last but not least +SA neutrality the pro"ect should not aect the public budget-$ .ne o the most persistent and widely shared criti/ues on &&& arrangements targets the lac! o accountability in the pro"ect )loomi eld, 023 *lind ers, 043 Hodg e 5 6re#e, 073 Shaou l, 04-$ 8emocra tic control o#er public spending, it is argued, gets obuscated, mainly due to the diminished direct steering capacity o ministers$ This is howe#er rather parado xical, because &&& promises in theory- an increased range o chec!points$ 9ompared to more traditional public in#estment pro"ects, &&& means more political attention and engagement$ This paradox suggests that the shit in public go#ernance also re/uires a rethin!ing o public accountability beyond electoral, parliamentary and constitutional means$ %ext to the increasing societal rele#ance, studying the impact o the shit in public go#ernance on public accountability is also explicitly scientiic rele#ant$ This research pro"ect has the ambition to add to the state o the art in the discipline o &ublic Administration$ *irst, thematically , studies o &&& ha#e until now mainly stressed legal, managerial, inancial and technical dimensions o &&& d Hooghe 5 ;andendriessche, 0<3 Hodge 5 6re#e, 043 S$ .sborne, 0-$ *ew studies ha#e addressed accountabili ty issues o &&&=s$ Secondly , in terms o disciplines, in the public man agemen t tr adi tion, &&& is oten seen a non (cont ing ent man age men t tool$ This pro "ec t explicitly introduces political #ariables in the analysis$ The integration o perspecti#es rom public administration and political science is hopeully one o the rereshing elements o this research pro"ect$ 1 T om Willems, 8epartment o &olitical Science, >ni#ersity o Antwerp, Sint(acobstraat 0, 0 Antwerp, )elgium$ +( mail: tom$willems@ua$ac$be
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