Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions

This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.

Auteur

Lina Svedin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.

Contenu

1. Introduction Part 1: Examining accountability: An empirically grounded theoretical framework
   2. Accountability mechanisms in governance 3. A comparative outlook on accountability mechanisms and the exertion of accountability in crises Part 2: Accountability in Sweden: A historical institutional examination
      4. Swedish Crises 1931 -2005 5. Mapping three historical developments: crises, accountability, and trust in government 6. Agents in accountability processes - who is held accountable by whom and how? Part 3: Results and trends
         7. The formal and informal nature of accountability 8. Public trust in governing institutions 9. Crises, accountability and trust in government: Conclusions