The Chalenge of Multiple Accountability: Does Redundancy Lead to Overload?

Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-21

  Schillemans, Thomas ^a   Bovens, Mark ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315706771-9     Document Type: Chapter

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