ABSTRACT
This book is about the description of the policy process and not a prescriptive text. In this concluding chapter two concepts are addressed that belong to a large extent to the prescriptive branches of policy analysis: evaluation and accountability. In examining how these issues are addressed in the modern world there is a need to take into account the complexity of the policy process explored throughout the book and highlighted at the end of the discussion of governance in the last chapter. If there is a ‘democratic deficit’ arising from the complexity of governance, can new forms of evaluation and new approaches to accountability reduce that deficit?
