Melvin J. Dubnick, PhD, Political Science

Master of Advanced Cynicism and General Despair

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  • 2021: A Tribute to H. George Frederickson
  • 2020: Dissecting the Semantics of Accountability and Its Misuse
  • 2018: Demons, Spirits, and Elephants: Reflections on the Failure of Public Administration Theory
  • 2018: GDD: American Government: Myths and Realities (12th edition)
  • 2018: The GDD Chapters
  • 2018: The GDD "Policy Connections"
  • 2015: EPAP 3rd edition
  • 2015: American Government: Myths and Realities (11th edition) Copy
  • 2014: Accountability as Cultural Keyword
  • 2014: The Ontological Challenge
  • 2014: Barnard's Regret: Zones of Accountability and the Limits of Authority
  • 2013: Power and the Ethics of Reform
  • 2012: Imagininng and Managing Organizational Evil
  • 2011: Move Over Daniel: We Need Some 'Accountability Space'
  • 2011: The Pursuit of Accountability: Promise, Problems, and Prospects
  • 2011: Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, And The Search For Trust
  • 2011: Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (AG)
  • 2011: AG: Introduction: The Promises of Accountability Research
  • 2011: AG: Rethinking the Obsession: Accountability and the Financial Crisis
  • 2011: AG: Conclusion: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
  • 2010: Accountable Agents: : Federal Performance Measurement and Third-Party Government
  • 2010: Toward a 'Responsible' Future: Reframing and Reforming the Governance of Financial Markets,
  • 2009: All Mega-Projects are Local? Citizen Participation Lessons from the Big Dig,
  • 2009: ggressive Action: In Search of a Dominant Narrative,
  • 2007: Sarbanes-Oxley And The Search For Accountable Corporate Governance
  • 2007: Sowing and Reaping at the Big Dig: The Legacies of Neomanagerialism
  • 2006/2007: Pathologies of Governance Reform: Promises, Pervasions and Perversions in the Age of Accountability
  • 2006: Taking Tough Choices Seriously: Public Administration and Individual Moral Agency
  • 2006: Accountability and the Evil of Adm Ethics
  • 2006: War Narratives: Framing Our Understanding of the War on Terror,
  • 2005: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
  • 2005: [Case 1] Comments
  • 2005: Accountability Through Thick and Thin: Making Assessments and Making Cases
  • 2004/2005: A Framework for Examining Accountability and Value for Money in the UK’s Private Finance InitiativeA Framework for Examining Accountability and Value for Money in the UK’s Private Finance Initiative
  • 2003/2008: Accountability And Ethics: Reconsidering the Relationships
  • 2003: Nurturing Civic Lives: Developmental Perspectives on Civic Education -- Introduction
  • 2002: Postscripts for a 'State of War': Public Administration and Civil Liberties After September 11
  • 2002: Implications for Federalism
  • 2001: In Defense of the Electoral College
  • 2000: The Case for Administrative Evil
  • 2000: Morals and Movies:  Energizing Ethical Thinking Among Professionals
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  • 1998: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
  • 1996: Challenges to American Public Administration: Complexity, Bureaucratization, and the Culture of Distrust
  • 1996: Farewell form the Catbird Seat
  • 1995: Oklahoma City (editorial)
  • 1994: Editing the Policy Studies Journal and Public Administration Review
  • 1994: Issues of Accountability in Flexible Personnel Systems
  • 1994: A Coup Against King Bureaucracy
  • 1993: Accountability and the Centrality of Expectations in American Public Administration
  • 1993: State economic development policies and national economic growth,
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  • 1991: American Public Administration
  • 1987: Accountability in Public Sector:Lessons from the Challenger tragedy
  • 1985: Industrial Policy and the States
  • 1983: Thinking About Public Policy
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  • 1982: Regulatory Policy Ananlysis: Working in a Quagmire
  • 1981: Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
  • 1981: Nationalizing State Policies
  • 1981: [Reivew} Promise and Performance
  • 1979: The Why & How of Policy Analysis
  • 1979: Problems in U.S. Standard-Setting: The Implications of the Shift to Control Functions
  • 1978: Three Approaches the Health Care
  • 1978: Comparing Policy Alternatives
  • 1976: Blaming The Planner: An Alternative Explanation Of Development Program Failure
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Melvin J. Dubnick and H. George Frederickson (eds.), Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (M.E. Sharpe/Routledge, 2011)



TABLE OF CONTENTS

"Introduction: The Promises of Accountability Research" (Dubnick and Frederickson)

PART I – Complex Challenges

* Chapter 1 – The Challenge of Multiple Accountability: Does Redundancy lead to Overload? (Schillemans and Bovens)
* Chapter 2 – The Tangled Web of Accountability in Contracting Networks: The Case of Welfare Reform (Romzek)
* Chapter 3 – Accountability Challenges in Public Sector Contracting for Complex Products (Brown, Potoski & VanSlyke)
* Chapter 4 – Accountability for Global Governance Organizations (Koppell)v

PART II — Obstacles to Accountability

* Chapter 5 – Performance Blight and the Tyranny of Light? Accountability in Advanced Performance Measurement Regimes (Pollitt)
* Chapter 6 – Does Performance Measurement Actually Improve Accountability? (Radin)
* Chapter 7 – The Accountability Environment of U.S. Counties (Johnson, Pierce & Lovrich)


PART III – Assessing Accountability

* Chapter 8 – Accountability Institutions And Information In The Policymaking Process (Posner & Schwartz)
* Chapter 9 – Accountability and Information Technology Enactment: A Cross-National Perspective (Ghere)


PART IV – Adapting to Accountability

* Chapter 10 – ‘Blame Avoidance and Accountability: Positive, Negative or Neutral?’ (Hood)
* Chapter 11 – The Challenges of Accountability for International Nongovernmental and Civil Society Organizations (Karns, Shaffer & Ghere)
* Chapter 12 – Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector: Abandoning the ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach (Kearns)

PART V – Strategies

* Chapter 13 – Watching the Watchers (Wheeler)
* Chapter 14 – Accountability and Voluntary Programs (Potoski & Prakesh)

PART VI – Rethinking Accountability

* Chapter 15 – Accountability in Two Non-western Contexts (Jordan)
* Chapter 16 – Accountability and a Theory of Representation (O'Kelly)
* Chapter 17 – Emergent Accountability and Structuration Theory: Implications (Yang)
* Chapter 18 - Rethinking the Obsession: Accountability and the Financial Crisis (Dubnick & O'Brien)

Conclusion: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
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