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dc.contributor.authorWilson, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-02T14:45:03Z
dc.date.available2015-04-02T14:45:03Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/56299
dc.description.abstractNetwork governance is becoming a dominant governing paradigm. Through this governing form, lateralized, pluricentric, and interconnected public, private, and semi-public actors make policy decisions. The application of power, through the act of governing, becomes departed from traditional democratic accountability mechanisms. Three Canadian cases are explored to make this point: the Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS), the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS), and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC). The problem of democratic accountability within network governance is the crux of my thesis. This thesis examines how those granted power, in a networked governing context, could be held to account. Existing approaches to this problem are limited due to a reliance on the idea of accountability as hierarchical and bureaucratic in nature, and as having a unidirectional ‘principal-agent’ foundation. This thesis moves the discussion towards a postliberal re-theorizing of new accountability frameworks that democratically qualify governance networks.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectNetwork Governanceen_US
dc.subjectAccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleTowards Accountability in Democratic Network Governanceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.date.defence2015-03-16
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
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dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorKatherine Fierlbecken_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerLouise Carberten_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerKristen Gooden_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorKatherine Fierlbecken_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
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