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- Examines the ombudsman as a global institution that has spread all over the world and whose institutional development is increasingly being governed transnationally
- Argues that the ombudsman is a peculiar institution of public accountability – both an institution and individual – that observes changes in the general political climate but also engages in a constant renegotiation of its intra-institutional position, potentially involving conflicts over its institutional mandate
- Further argues that the global models associated with the ombudsman are a source of organizational ideas, legitimacy, and sense of orientation, but they treat institutional actors differently, working also as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion
Part of the book series: Public Sector Organizations (PSO)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Institution
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European Ombudsman
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Conclusions
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Ombudsman
- human rights
- good governance
- organizational models
- diffusion
- accountability
- transnational governance
- National Human Rights Institution
- international governance
- good governance
- Finnish Ombudsman
- insitutional change
- discourse
- human rights
- public accountability
- global models
- supranational accountability
- transparency
- politicization
- actors
Authors and Affiliations
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Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Tero Erkkilä
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ombudsman as a Global Institution
Book Subtitle: Transnational Governance and Accountability
Authors: Tero Erkkilä
Series Title: Public Sector Organizations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32675-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32674-6Published: 28 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32677-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32675-3Published: 27 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2290
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 231
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, European Politics, International Organization, Political Theory, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking