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The Dilemma of Developing Financial Accountability without Election – A Study of China's Recent Budget Reforms
Author(s) -
Ma Jun
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2009.00622.x
Subject(s) - accountability , dilemma , china , democracy , politics , function (biology) , business , political science , economics , public administration , law , evolutionary biology , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Until recently, the discussion on political accountability focused on accountability in democratic systems with free and regular elections. Using China as a case study, this article contends that there exists a possibility of financial accountability without election. However, as election serves the important function of potentially changing the chain of accountability, the route of creating financial accountability without election has its limitations.