ACCOUNTABILITY PAYOFFS IN FEDERAL SYSTEMS? COMPETING LOGICS AND EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE'S NEWEST FEDERATION

DOWNS, WILLIAM M.

PUBLIUS: THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM, n.º 1/1999, pág. 87

1. Europe's quest for "good governance". 2.Accountability. 3. Thesis: Federalism enhancesaccountability. 4. Antithesis: Federalism tends to reduceindividual or institutional accountability. 5. Synthesis:Accountability from the bird's eye and the worm's eye. 6.Application: accountability tradeoffs in the new federalbelgium. 7. Conclusion.