The Dilemma of Developing Financial Accountability without Election – A Study of China's Recent Budget Reforms

作者：Jun Ma · 发表于：Australian Journal of Public Administration · 年份：2009 · DOI：10.1111/j.1467-8500.2009.00622.x · 被引用次数：47 · 研究领域：Local Government Finance and Decentralization、Public Policy and Administration Research、China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

Until recently, the discussion on political accountability focused on accountability in democratic systems with free and regular elections. Using China as a case study, this article contends that there exists a possibility of financial accountability without election. However, as election serves the important function of potentially changing the chain of accountability, the route of creating financial accountability without election has its limitations.