Overpromising and Underperforming?: Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Glossary of Acronyms

List of Tables

PART 1 Establishing Benchmarks

Chapter 1: Introduction: Accountability and Governance
Peter Graefe (McMaster University), Julie M. Simmons (University of Guelph), Linda A. White (University of Toronto)

PART II Emerging Accountability Structures: Canadian Case Studies

Chapter 2: Intergovernmental Accountability and Health Care: Reflections on the Recent Canadian Experience
Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa)

Chapter 3: The National Child Benefit: Collective Accountability through Public Reporting
Julie M. Simmons

Chapter 4: Democratizing Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Community Engagement and Public Reporting In Early Learning and Child Care in Canada
Tammy Findlay (Mount Saint Vincent University)

Chapter 5: Evolving Federal-Provincial Accountability Regimes in Active Labour Market Policy
Thomas Klassen (York University) and Donna Wood (University of Victoria)

Chapter 6: Accountability in Labour Market Policies for Persons with Disabilities
Peter Graefe and Mario Levesque (Memorial University)

Chapter 7: Multi-Level Governance, Infrastructure, and the Transformation of Accountability Regimes in Canada
Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa) and Josh Hjartarson (University of Toronto)

PART III Alternative Accountabilities: Comparative and Normative Examples

Chapter 8: Convergence Through Benchmarking and Policy Learning: The Impact of the Open Method of Coordination on Social Policy within the European Union
Daniel V. Preece (Carleton University)

Chapter 9: Global Governance and Canadian Federalism: Reconciling External Accountability Obligations through Internal Accountability Practices
Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)

Chapter 10: The No Child Left Behind Act and Educational Accountability in the United States
Paul Manna (College of William and Mary)

Chapter 11: Internal Answerability and Intergovernmental Policy Learning: Accountability in Canadian Mandatory Education
Jennifer Wallner (University of Ottawa)

Chapter 12: Accountability Regimes for Federal Social Transfers: An Exercise in Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Barbara Cameron (York University)

Chapter 13: Panacea or Peril? Intergovernmental Accountability and the Auditor General
Amy Nugent and Julie M. Simmons

PART IV Conclusion

Chapter 14: Conclusion: Whither Accountability?
Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons and Linda A. White