作者:Olsen, Johan P.
作者单位:University of Oslo
摘要:Accountability is a principle for organizing relations between rulers and ruled, and making public officials accountable is a democratic achievement. There are, however, competing claims about what is involved in demanding, rendering, assessing, and responding to accounts; what are effective accountability institutions; and how accountability regimes emerge and change. This article provides a frame for thinking about institutional aspects of accountability regimes and their cognitive, normativ...
作者:Hoxha, Julinda
作者单位:Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
作者:Ban, Cornel
作者单位:Boston University
摘要:Since 2008, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become more open to the use of discretionary fiscal stimulus packages to deal with recessions, while changing its doctrine on the timing and content of fiscal consolidation. The article traces this evolution of the Fund's doctrine to staff politics, more diverse thinking in mainstream economics, and a careful framing of the message through the use of mainstream macroeconomic models. To map the changing contours of institutional views on fis...
作者:Allen, Richard
作者单位:International Monetary Fund