Are the forms of accountability in democratic political systems fundamentally determined by their electoral systems? Compare at least two countries.
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ESSAY QUESTIONS 2019-20
1.
Are
the forms of accountability in democratic political systems fundamentally
determined by their electoral systems? Compare at least two countries.
Recommended
reading:
Representation
and Accountability. An examination of the traditional ‘vertical’ model of
political accountability that operates through elections and representation.
I.Budge,
‘Direct and Representative Democracy: Are They Necessarily Opposed?’,
Representation,
42 (1).
Mansbridge,
J, ‘Rethinking Representation’, American Political Science Review, 97 (4), 515-
28, 2003.
Supplementary
readings:
C. Achen
and L.Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive
Government,
Princeton, 2016.
T. Wright,
‘Recalling MPs: Accountable to Whom?’, Political Quarterly, 86, 2, 2015.
D. Beetham
et al, Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom,
Politico’s,
2002
Marsh, M
and Tilley, J, ‘The attribution of credit and blame to governments and its
impact on
vote choice’, British Journal of Political Science, 40, 1, 2010
Vivyan, N,
Wagner, M and Tarlov, J, ‘Where Did Electoral Accountability Fail? MP
Misconduct,
Constituent Perceptions and Vote Choice’, in J. Hudson ed. The Political Costs
of the 2009
British MPs’ Expenses Scandal, Palgrave, 2014.
Norris, P,
Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behaviour, CUP, 2004
Ashworth,
S, ‘Electoral Accountability: Recent Theoretical and Empirical Work’, American
Review of
Political Science, 2012, 15, 183-201.
Renwick, A,
The Politics of Electoral Reform, CUP, 2010
Lijphart,
A, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six
Countries,
Yale, 1999.
Przeworski,
A, Stokes, S and Manin, B (eds), Democracy, Accountability and
Representation,
CUP, 1999
Judge, D,
‘Recall of MPs in the UK’, Parliamentary Affairs, 2012, 1-20.
Judge, D,
Representation: Theory and Practice in Britain, Routledge, 1999
Alonso, S,
J, Keane and W. Merkel, The Future of Representative Democracy, Cambridge,
