Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 6-3-2014 12:00 AM Authority Migration and Accountability in Canadian Type II Multilevel Governance Robert W. Waterman The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Cameron D. Anderson The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Political Science A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Robert W. Waterman 2014 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Health Policy Commons, Political Science Commons, and the Public Administration Commons Recommended Citation Waterman, Robert W., "Authority Migration and Accountability in Canadian Type II Multilevel Governance" (2014). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2253. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2253 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Authority Migration and Accountability in Canadian Type II Multilevel Governance Thesis format: Monograph by Robert Waterman Graduate Program in Political Science A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Robert William Waterman 2014 ii Abstract In advanced industrial democracies, including Canada, elections act as important mechanisms of democratic accountability. However, the migration of public decision-making responsibility away from elected representatives and toward new governance models may alter accountability relationships. As authority is dispersed horizontally to new governance actors that exist beyond the reach of the ballot box, questions of public input and accountability within the democratic governance process arise.