This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour political accountability.

Gianfranco Pasquino is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy, and Former Senator of the Italian Republic (1983-1992; and 1994-1996).

Riccardo Pelizzo is an Associate Professor and the Vice Dean of Research in the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Introduction 1. The Three Faces of Accountability 2. Electoral and Interinstitutional Accountability 3. Electoral Accountability in non-Western Settings 4. Accountability: Nonelectoral and Systemic 5. Religion and Accountability 6. Religious Denominations and Good Governance 7. The Cultural Determinants of Accountability. Epilogue