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Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to promote accountability but it is often unclear what accountability is and how it can be promoted. This book addresses some questions that are crucial to understanding accountability and for understanding why accountability is important to improve the effectiveness of development aid. We ask: What does it mean to make governments accountable to their citizens? How do you do that? How do you create genuine demand for accountability among citizens, how do you move citizens from inertia to public action? The main argument of this book is that accountability is a matter of public opinion. Governments will only be accountable if there are incentives for them to do so?and only an active and critical public will change the incentives of government officials to make them responsive to citizens? demands. Accountability without public opinion is a...

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ACCOUNTABILITY
THROUGH
PUBLIC OPINION
FROM INERTIA TO PUBLIC ACTION
ACCOUNTABILITY
THROUGH
PUBLIC OPINION
FROM INERTIA TO PUBLIC ACTION

SINA ODUGBEMI AND TAEKU LEE

Editors

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ISBN: 978-0-8213-8505-0
eISBN: 978-0-8213-8556-2
DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8505-0

Cover photograph: Joseph Luoman; iStockphoto.com / luoman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Accountability through public opinion : from inertia to public action / [edited by]
Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8213-8505-0ISBN 978-0-8213-8556-2 (electronic)
1. Government accountability. 2. Public servicesPublic opinion. 3. Organizational effectiveness. 4. PerformanceManagement. I. Odugbemi, Sina. II. Lee, Taeku.
JF1351.A246 2010
320.01dc22

2010032302

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Section IFoundations
Taking Direct Accountability Seriously
Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee
The (Im)Possibility of Mobilizing Public Opinion?
Taeku Lee
The Public and Its (Alleged) Handiwork
Sina Odugbemi
Section IIStructural Context
Gaining State Support for Social Accountability
Harry Blair
The Workings of Accountability: Contexts and Conditions
Enrique Peruzzotti
Associations without Democracy: The West Bank in Comparative Perspective
Amaney Jamal
Section IIIInformation and Accountability
Necessary Conditions for Increasing Accountability
Arthur Lupia
Information Processing, Public Opinion, and Accountability
Charles S. Taber and Everett Young
Information, Social Networks, and the Demand for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin
Leonard Wantchekon and Christel Vermeersch
Section IVBuilding Capacity through Media Institutions (Media and Journalism)
Training Journalists for Accountability in Argentina
Laura Zommer
Well-Informed Journalists Make Well-Informed Citizens: Coverage of Governance Issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mary Myers
Communication Technologies for Accountability
Anne-Katrin Arnold
Section VDeliberation and Accountability
Minipublics: Designing Institutions for Effective Deliberation and Accountability
Archon Fung
Deliberation and Institutional Mechanisms for Shaping Public Opinion
Baogang He
Creating Citizens through Communication Education in the United States
William Keith
Participatory Constitution Making in Uganda
Devra Moehler
Section VIPower and Public Opinion (Mobilizing Public Opinion)
Collective Movements, Activated Opinion, and the Politics of the Extraordinary
Taeku Lee
Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power
Marshall Ganz
Social Accountability as Public Work
Peter Levine
Holding Government Accountable through Informal Institutions: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
Lily Tsai
Adult Civic Education and the Development of Democratic Culture: Evidence from Emerging Democracies
Steven E. Finkel
Section VIICase Studies
Is Social Participation Democratizing Politics?
Vera Schattan P. Coelho
Stimulating Activism through Champions of Change
Samuel Paul
Informed Public Opinion and Official Behavior Change
Gopakumar Thampi
Overcoming Inertia and Generating Participation: Insights from Participatory Processes in South Africa
Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks
Civil Society Representation in So Paulo
Adrian Gurza Lavalle
Embedding the Right to Information: The Uses of Sector-Specific Transparency Regimes
Rob Jenkins
Section VIIIConclusion
How Can Citizens Be Helped to Hold Their Governments Accountable?
Taeku Lee and Sina Odugbemi
Appendix A
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