Enduring fundamentals: constitutional accountability and auditors-general in the reluctant state
Enduring fundamentals: constitutional accountability and auditors-general in the reluctant state
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持久的基本面：不情愿状态下的宪法问责和审计长
DOI：
10.1006/cpac.2002.0519
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
W. Funnell
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作者：
W. Funnell
改革派政府在追求自己的政治利益时，已准备放弃对宪法责任的持久理解，这种理解强调整个社会的福祉是实质性公民身份的表现，而代之以更容易量化的责任形式。人们的假设是，这两种形式的问责制很容易、正确且必然地相互替代。审计长和其他独立官员继续质疑这些变化在宪法上的不一致之处，有时甚至对这些变化的存在造成严重威胁。将服务外包给私营部门的责任制后果是审计长特别关注的问题。
Reformist governments in pursuing their own political interests have been prepared to put aside enduring understandings of constitutional accountability which emphasize the well-being of the entire community as the manifestation of substantive citizenship and replace it with more easily metricated forms of accountability. The assumption has been that the two forms of accountability are easily, rightly and necessarily substitutable for the other. Auditors-general and other independent officers continue to question the constitutional inconsistencies of these changes, sometimes at grave risk to their very existence. The accountability consequences of contracting out services with the private sector are of special concern to auditors-general.