Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Glossary of Acronyms xv
6. List of Tables xix
7. PART ONE. Establishing Benchmarks
8. 1. Introduction: Accountability and Governance 3
9. PART TWO. Emerging Accountability? Structures: Canadian Case Studies
10. 2. Intergovernmental Accountability and Health Care: Reflections on the Recent Canadian Experience 31
11. 3. The National Child Benefit: Collective Accountability through Public Reporting 56
12. 4. Democratizing Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Community Engagement and Public Reporting in Early Learning and Child Care in Canada 75
13. 5. Evolving Federal-Provincial Accountability Regimes in Active Labour Market Policy 102
14. 6. Accountability in Labour Market Policies for Persons with Disabilities 127
15. 7. Multi-Level Governance, Infrastructure, and the Transformation of Accountability Regimes in Canada 144
16. PART THREE. Alternative Accountabilities: Comparative and Normative Examples
17. 8. Convergence through Benchmarking and Policy Learning: The Impact of the Open Method of Coordination on Social Policy within the European Union 169
18. 9. Global Governance and Canadian Federalism: Reconciling External Accountability Obligations through Internal Accountability Practices 190
19. 10. The No Child Left Behind Act and Educational Accountability in the United States 211
20. 11. Internal Answerability and Intergovernmental Policy Learning: Accountability in Canadian Mandatory Education 238
21. 12. Accountability Regimes for Federal Social Transfers: An Exercise in Deconstruction and Reconstruction 258
22. 13. Panacea or Peril? Intergovernmental Accountability and the Auditor General 284
23. PART FOUR. Conclusion
24. 14. Conclusion: Whither Accountability? 307
25. Contributors 325
26. Index 327