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Ombudsman as a Global Institution : Transnational Governance and Accountability / by Tero Erkkilä.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erkkilä, Tero., Author.
- Series:
- Public Sector Organizations, 2946-2304
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political planning.
- Political science.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- International organization.
- Human rights.
- Public Policy.
- Governance and Government.
- European Politics.
- International Organization.
- Political Theory.
- Human Rights.
- Local Subjects:
- Public Policy.
- Governance and Government.
- European Politics.
- International Organization.
- Political Theory.
- Human Rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, charts.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. It has spread all over the world and its institutional development is increasingly being governed transnationally. Initially an institution of administrative law, the ombudsman has become a human rights institution and institution of good governance. These ideational shifts have influenced the global diffusion of the ombudsman but also the way in which this institution of accountability functions. The ombudsman is a peculiar institution of public accountability - both an institution and individual - that observes changes in the general political climate and engages in renegotiations of its intra-institutional position. The global models associated with the ombudsman are a source of organizational ideas, legitimacy, and sense of orientation, but they treat institutional actors differently, working also as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The book tracks the global diffusion and institutional evolution of the ombudsman. Itschapters on institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in Finland, and the European Ombudsman. Tero Erkkilä is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous books include Government Transparency, Global University Rankings, Public Administration (with B. Guy Peters and Patrick von Maravic) and Global Knowledge Governance (with Ossi Piironen).
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Ombudsman as Global Institution
- Chapter 2 Transnational Governance and Global Diffusion of the Ombudsman Institution
- Chapter 3 Institutional History of the Ombudsman and Chancellor of Justice in Finland
- Chapter 4 The Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Chancellor of Justice, and Institutional Change
- Chapter 5 European Ombudsman as Supranational Institution of Accountability
- Chapter 6 European Ombudsman and Institutional Change
- Chapter 7 Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783030326753
- 3030326756
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