Accountable autonomy

<h2 id="design">Design</h2>
<p>The design of accountable autonomy exists in prescriptions for the efficacy of civic participation:
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<ol><li>Increasing discretion of street-level officials  with respect to formal rules and centralized oversight, while making their actions transparent and open to critique for civilians;</li>
<li>Generating innovations through engaging the local knowledge of civilians and diffusing insights through <a href="/facts/Benchmarking/7HKqj6aL">benchmarking</a> of best practices;</li>
<li>Having cross-functional coordination, not a rigid division of labor;</li>
<li>Enhancing neighbourhood trust through tests of collaboration.</li></ol>
<p>Fung argues that accountable autonomy increases fairness, because it offers ways for the least advantaged to act constructively against unfairness and it offers opportunities for civilians to deliberate about prioritization of problems and strategies to solve them.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Subsidiarity/rKk0n9sJ">Subsidiarity</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Fung, Archon (2006). Empowered participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12608-9. <a href="0-691-12608-9" target="_blank">0-691-12608-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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