Gergana Dimova is Associate Lecturer in Global Politics at the University of Winchester, UK. She previously was a researcher at Harvard University, USA, and Cambridge University, UK. She is the chair of the UK Political Science Association Anti-Politics Group and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Chapter 1: Government Accountability in the Media Age: How to Measure, Explain and Assess It?

Part I. Explaining Government Accountability: A Model of Supply and Demand

Chapter 2: The Media Age and Government Accountability: An Ambiguous Relationship

Chapter 3: Supply of Accountability and the Accountability Turn

Chapter 4: The Demand for Accountability and Public Fragmentation

Part II. Evaluating Government Accountability: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Results

Chapter 5: Accountability and Democracy: An Assessment

Chapter 6: De-Parliamentarisation of Government Accountability in Germany: Crisis or Transformation of Democracy

Chapter 7: The Presidentialisation of Government Accountability in Russia: Crisis or Transformation of Democracy?

Chapter 8: Judicialisation of Government Accountability in Bulgaria: Crisis or Transformation of Democracy?

Part III. Democracy Analyzed through the Lens of Accountability: Crisis or Transformation?

Chapter 9: Democracy through the Prism of Accountability: Comparison with Models of the Crisis and Transformation of Democracy

Chapter 10: Contemporary Models of the Crisis of Democracy: Critical Overview through a Demand and Supply Framework

Chapter 11: Models of the Transformation of Democracy: Critical Overview through a Demand and Supply Framework