TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vuković, Danilo
PY  - 2018
UR  - https://ralf.ius.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1057
AB  - This article deals with the social accountability activities of civil society organizations in Serbia and Cambodia. In both countries, they emerged with the conceptual and financial support of international development agencies; yet, the outputs were mediated by the social and political contexts. Still, these activities have some joint features: they (1) boost both understanding and awareness rather than solely mobilizing social interests; (2) target the interests of individual citizens rather than the interests of social-based groups or classes; (3) promote state cooperation instead of confrontation and (3) insist on the use of technical policy-related tools and mechanisms instead of political mobilization. The social accountability initiatives analyzed here have followed a policy-not-politics or depoliticized approach. As a consequence, they were ineffective in mobilizing citizens and social groups in a manner that would efficiently demand more accountability. On the other hand, governments contested civil society and appropriated its accountability discourses and strategies in an effort that can be read as an attempt to resist imposing government accountability and rule of law and pacifying present and future civic activism.
PB  - Springer, New York
T2  - Voluntas
T1  - The Quest for Government Accountability and Rule of Law: Conflicting Strategies of State and Civil Society in Cambodia and Serbia
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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vuković, Danilo
AU  - Babović, Marija
PY  - 2018
UR  - https://ralf.ius.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1009
AB  - In this article, we analyse the social accountability (SA) mechanisms that have recently been established in Cambodia. These initiatives take place in a socio-political context marked by pervasive neo-patrimonial structures. Our focus is on the strategies implemented by state actors, CSOs and ordinary citizens (mediated by neo-patrimonial structures) - strategies that demonstrate a neo-patrimonial trap into which SA initiatives have fallen, whereby official institutions and accountability lines have been undermined. These strategies are: to focus SA activities on local level authorities who have no means or power to introduce changes in governance or to improve public services, and to allow SA practices to emerge only to the extent that they do not threaten actual authoritarian distribution of power, norms and practices of clientelistic exchange, and the benefits obtained through patron-client relations. As a result, citizens have not been empowered to demand accountability but, paradoxically, have been encouraged to take over some government responsibilities. This, in turn, strengthens the networks of clientelism and patronage. These insights indicate the weak potential of externally-imposed SA mechanisms in an authoritarian and neo-patrimonial setting in which the government is only partly committed to achieving accountability. The findings are based on a two-year study conducted using a combination of qualitative sociological methods and an ethnographic approach.
PB  - Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon
T2  - Asian Studies Review
T1  - The Trap of Neo-patrimonialism: Social Accountability and Good Governance in Cambodia
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon., 42(1), 144-160.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2017.1414773
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