369
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The Demand and Supply Sides of Accountability in Local Government Authorities in Tanzania

REFERENCES

  • Agarwal, S., Rasmus, H., & Myrtle, D. (2009). Scaling up social accountability in World Bank operations (Report no. 51469). Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Aiko, R. (2014). Political accountability in East African countries: Who should make MPs and councillors do their jobs? Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Afrobarometer.
  • Akhtar, S., Malla, M. K., & Gregson, J. (2002). Transparency, accountability, and good governance. Media Asia, 29(1), 10–16. doi:10.1080/01296612.2002.11726657
  • Anuradha, J., & Houtzager, P. (2012). Widgets or watchdogs? Conceptual explorations in social accountability. Public Management Review, 14(2), 145–162. doi:10.1080/14719037.2012.657837
  • Bovens, M. (2005). Public accountability (Draft, to be published). In E. Ferlie, L. Lynne, & C. Pollitt (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of public management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Bratton, M., & Logan, C. (2006). Voters but not yet Citizens: The weak demand for political accountability in Africa’s unclaimed democracies (Working paper no. 63). Accra, Ghana: AfroBarometer.
  • Brinkerhoff, D. W., & Goldsmith, A. A. (2002). Clientelism, patrimonialism and democratic governance: An overview and framework for assessment and programming. Washington DC: U.S. Agency for International Development.
  • Brinkerhoff, D. W., & Wetterberg, A. (2016). Gauging the effects of social accountability on services, governance, and citizen empowerment. Public Administration Review, 76(2), 274–286. doi:10.1111/puar.12399
  • Carter, B. (2014). Transparency and accountability (GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report 1067). Birmingham, UK: GSDRC, University of Birmingham.
  • Chaligha, A. (2014a). Citizen participation and local governance in Tanzania (Repoa brief no. 41). Retrieved from http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/REPOA_BRIEF_41.pdf
  • Chaligha, A. (2014b). Transparency and accountability in local governance in Tanzania (Repoa brief no. 45). Retrieved from www.repoa.or.tz/documents/REPOA_BRIEF_45.pdf
  • Christie, N. V. (2018). A comprehensive accountability framework for public administrators. Public Integrity, 20(1), 80–92. doi:10.1080/10999922.2016.1257349
  • Devas, N., & Grant, U. (2003). Local government decision-making? Citizen participation and local accountability: Some evidence from Kenya and Uganda. Public Administration and Development, 23(4), 307–316. doi:10.1002/pad.281
  • Erkkilä, T. (2012). Government transparency: Impacts and unintended consequences. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Fjeldstad, O., Braathen, E., & Chaligha, A. (2006). Local government reform in Tanzania 2002–2005: Summary of research findings on governance, finance and service delivery (Repoa brief no. 6). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Repoa.
  • Fordia (2008). Corruption index for Tanzania: Citizens’ awareness and their perception of corruption report. Concern for Development Initiatives in Africa. Unpublished Report
  • Fox, J. (2007). The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability. Development in Practice, 17(4–5), 663–671. doi:10.1080/09614520701469955
  • Gabriel, A. G. (2017). Transparency and accountability in local government: Levels of commitment of municipal councillors in Bongabon in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 39(3), 217–223. doi:10.1080/23276665.2017.1368902
  • Greenwood, J., Pyper, R., & Wilson, D. (2002). New public administration in Britain (3rd ed.). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Halachmi, A., & Greiling, D. (2013). Transparency, E-government, and accountability. Public Performance & Management Review, 36(4), 572–584. doi:10.2753/PMR1530-9576360404
  • Harris, D., Domingo, P., Sianga, C., Chengullah, E., & Kavishe, C. B. (2011). The political economy of social accountability in Tanzania: Anti-logging advocacy and the Mama Misitu campaign.
  • Harrison, T. (2018). Political economy analysis of the relationship between civil society organisations and local government in Tanzania (Research reports and studies). Retrieved from https://www.odi.org/publications/5870-political-economy-social-accountability-tanzania-anti-logging-advocacy-and-mama-misitu-campaign
  • Hickey, S., & King, S. (2016). Understanding social accountability: Politics, power and building new social contracts. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(8), 1225–1240. doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1134778
  • Hill, M. (2005). The public policy process (4th ed.). Harlow, UK: Pearson Education Limited.
  • Hoffman, B. D., & Gibson, C. C. (2006). Political accountability and fiscal governance: Evidence from Tanzania and Zambia. Retrieved from www.econ.ucsd.edu/seminars/0607seminars/gibson_paper.pdf.
  • Joshi, A. (2013). Do they work? Assessing the impact of transparency and accountability initiatives in service delivery. Development Policy Review, 31, s29–s48. doi:10.1111/dpr.12018
  • Kabyemela, M. (2017). Democratization and public accountability at the grassroots in Tanzania: A missing link. African Studies Quarterly, 17(1), 43–60.
  • Kelsall, T. (2010). Governance, democracy and recent political struggles in mainland Tanzania. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 41(2), 55–82. doi:10.1080/14662040412331310101
  • Kessy, A. (2008). Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) and the challenges of local governance in Tanzania: Local autonomy, participation, accountability and transparency. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester.
  • Kessy, A. (2013). Decentralization and citizens’ participation: Some theoretical and conceptual perspectives. African Review, 40(2), 215–239.
  • Kessy, A., & McCourt, W. (2010). Is decentralization still recentralization? The local government reform programme in Tanzania. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(12–13), 689–697. doi:10.1080/01900692.2010.514454
  • Lupson, J. (2007). A phenomenographic study of British civil servants’ conceptions of accountability. Bedford, UK: Cranfield University.
  • Mabillard, V., & Zumofen, R. (2010). The Complex relationship between transparency and accountability: A synthesis and contribution to existing frameworks. Public Policy and Administration, 32(2), 110–129. doi:10.1177/0952076716653651
  • Mallya, E. T. (2011). Accountability and transparency at the grassroots level: The experience of Tanzania. In Democratic Transition in East Africa: Governance and Development at the Grassroots (pp. 121–137). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: REDET.
  • Massoi, L., & King, N. A. S. (2009). Decentralization by devolution in Tanzania: Reflections on community involvement in the planning process in Kizota Ward in Dodoma. Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research, 1(7), 133–140.
  • Mdee, A., & Thorley, L. (2016). Good governance, local government, accountability and service delivery in Tanzania: Exploring the context for creating a local governance performance index. Retrieved from https://dl.orangedox.com/Mzumbe-WP2-2016
  • Mushi, A. A. (2011). Civil society in the era of good governance dispensation: Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the politics of engaging government in Tanzania. Birmingham, UK: The University of Birmingham.
  • Mwakagenda, H. T. (2011). Social accountability monitoring in Africa: Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) in Tanzania as a case study. The Leadership Forum, Tanzania. Unpublished Report.
  • Okeke, R., & Uchenna, A. (2016). Institutional mechanisms for local government accountability: Evaluating the Nigerian provisions against the European charter of local self-government. World Scientific News, 40, 285–300.
  • Oswald, M. F. (2010). Low voter turnout in Tanzania: Causes and remedies -The case of multiparty general elections and parliamentary by-elections. Hague, The Netherlands: International Institute of Social Studies.
  • Pallotti, A. (2008). Tanzania: Decentralising power or spreading poverty? Review of African Political Economy, 35(116), 221–235. doi:10.1080/03056240802194067
  • Randma-Liiv, T. (2005). Demand- and supply-based policy transfer in Estonian public administration. Journal of Baltic Studies, 36(4), 467–487. doi:10.1080/01629770500000211
  • Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania (REDET) Tanganyika Law Society (TLS). (2012). Report of the Study on Low Voter Turnout in the 2010 union elections: Final report. Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar es Salaam. Tanzania
  • REPOA. (2008). The oversight processes of local councils in Tanzania: Final report. Retrieved from www.repoa.or.tz.
  • Rhodes, R. A. W. (1997). Understanding governance: Policy networks, governance, reflexivity and accountability. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
  • Romzek, B. S. (2000). Dynamics of public sector accountability in an era of reform. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 66(1), 21–44. doi:10.1177/0020852300661004
  • SNV. (2015). Public accountability in Tanzania initiative: Brief 1: Approach, results & operational lessons. Retrieved from http://snv-website-2015.live.dpdk.com/public/cms/sites/default/files/explore/download/brief_1_public_accountability_in_tanzania_pata_initiative.pdf.
  • Steffensen, J. (2006). Local government organization and finance: Uganda. In A. Shah (Ed.), Local governance in developing countries. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
  • Steiner, S. (2007). Decentralisation and poverty: Conceptual framework and application to Uganda. Public Administration and Development, 27(2), 175–185. doi:10.1002/pad.445
  • TEMCO. (2016). Report on the 2015 election in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: REDET-Lead Agency of TEMCO.
  • Tidemand, P., & Msami, J. (2010). The impact of local government reforms in Tanzania: 1998-2008. Retrieved from http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/10-1_SP_lr.pdf
  • United Republic of Tanzania. (1998). Policy paper on local government reform. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Government Printer
  • United Republic of Tanzania. (2009). Poverty and human development report 2009. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.
  • Vliet, M. V. (2011). Domestic accountability at the local level inventory study: Country report Tanzania. VNG International and African Studies Centre. Unpublished Report.
  • Yilmaz, S., Beris, Y., & Serrano-Berthet, R. (2010). Linking local government discretion and accountability in decentralisation. Development Policy Review, 28(3), 259–293. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00484.x

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.