1. The politics of accountability
IHEID-DESCO “Executive Master en Políticas y Prácticas del Desarrollo
Módulo 1: “Políticas y prácticas de desarrollo en el marco de la globalización”
Lima, 9-10 de agosto de 2016
The politics of accountability
Guillaume Fontaine, Esther Sánchez, Marco Córdova y Susan Velasco
FLACSO Ecuador/Departamento de Asuntos Públicos

2. 1. Introduction: Why bother about accountability?
Democracy, participation and social control
Is it worth it?
Ideas and institutions in policy change
Causal mechanism
Organization
Theoretical literature on accountability
Methods
Case study

3. 2. Theoretical discussion
Accountability
Vertical and horizontal
Philosophical traditions (liberal, republican and democratic)
Enforcement and answerability
Social accountability
Four kinds of accountability
Electoral democratic control
Non-electoral democratic control
Horizontal control through balanced agencies
Horizontal control through dedicated agencies

4. 3. Methods Case selection Indigenous rights to previous consultation
International legal instruments
Competing explanations
Demographic hypothesis
Economic hypothesis
Sociological hypothesis
Process tracing
Three orders of change in policy aims and means
Policy instruments of accountability

5. 4. Case study Third order change
Constitutional reforms in Colombia and Ecuador
Second-order change
NATO
First-order change
Social conflicts
Causal mechanism
Non-electoral democratic control
Constitutional and institutional reform
Policy design
Instruments calibration
Long-term policy implementation

6. 5. Conclusion: Accountability as a policy problem
Procedural instruments
Three modalities
Vertical electoral
Horizontal intrastate
Non-electoral democratic
Consistency and irreversibility

7. Gracias por su atención
Guillaume Fontaine