Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability
Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability
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Abingdon: Routledge
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Strengthening 'social accountability' is emerging as a key strategy for improving public services and attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Yet current conceptualizations of social accountability have tended to focus on it as 'mechanisms' or 'widgets', a view which tends to depoliticize the very processes through which poor people make claims...
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Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1082142671
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1471-9037
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1471-9045
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10.1080/14719037.2012.657837
