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Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

West European Politics, 2010

This paper distinguishes between two main concepts of accountability: accountability as a virtue and accountability as a mechanism. In the former case, accountability is used primarily as a normative concept, as a set of standards for the evaluation of the behaviour of public actors. Accountability or, more precisely, being accountable, is seen as a positive quality in organisations or officials.

Accountability as a Virtue

Studies in Christian Ethics, 2021

This opening article will offer a brief introduction to what it means to understand accountability as a virtue. To do so, I first propose a definition of the condition of accountability, which I go on to distinguish from responsibility. Based on this definition, I then present an account of the corresponding virtue of accountability.

Accountability: a Review

International Journal of Economics and Management Studies, 2016

Accountability has not assigned a proper definition which is accepted by all yet, then also from ages it is understood as the answerability of the accountee (the person who has the responsibility for the task he/she is answerable for) to the accounter (the person who has the authority to ask for the status of responsibility given). In this paper researcher has tried to give the review of the meaningful insights for the word accountability given by different authors in different contexts.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS: RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIPS

2003

While a relationship between accountability and ethics has long been assumed and debated in Public Administration, the nature of that relationship has not been examined or clearly articulated. This article makes such an effort by positing four major forms of accountability (answerability, blameworthiness, liability and attributability) and focusing on the ethical strategies developed in response to each of these forms.

Accountability Keywords

Working Paper, No. 11, 2022

This working paper is a review of keywords that communicate ideas associated with accountability. Words used to describe ideas about accountability often have different meanings, to different actors, in different contexts—and in different languages. This paper addresses the multiple, ambiguous meanings of accountability with the ‘keywords’ approach, a tradition that takes everyday big ideas whose meanings are often taken for granted and makes their subtexts explicit. Illustrations of different understandings of accountability are drawn mainly from cases in the international development field, but references to the persistent challenge of accountability in the US are also included. These serve as a reminder that democratic political systems and legal systems once considered robust are no guarantee of accountability. The paper addresses the scope of the concept and overlapping concepts before addresses widely-used keywords, keywords from more specialized communities of practice and accountability sayings.

Accountability

2013

It is provided as background research for the HLP Report, one of many inputs to the