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The Dilemma of Accountability in Modern Government
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The article was published on 1971-01-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dilemma & Accountability.read more
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The chameleon of accountability: Forms and discourses
TL;DR: The chameleon quality of accountability was identified in interviews with 15 chief executives of Australian public sector organisations as discussed by the authors, and five forms of accountability identified in the interviews were explored: political, public, managerial, professional and personal.
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Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government: Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State
TL;DR: Despite the fact that gouernment in the United States relies more heavily on nonprofit organizations than on its own instrumentalities to deliver government-funded human services, and that nonprof...
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Mapping accountability: core concept and subtypes
TL;DR: The recent surge in popularity of "accountability" in public administration and international development seems in part divorced from centuries of conceptual and empirical work done in related fields, such as finance.
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Intellectual Capital Reporting by the New Zealand Local Government Sector
Annika Schneider,Grant Samkin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the extent and quality of intellectual capital disclosures in the annual reports of the New Zealand local government sector is assessed using an ICD index constructed through a participatory stakeholder consultation process.
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Administrative Accountability in the ‘Westminster’ Democracies: Towards a New Conceptual Framework
TL;DR: In this paper, a refined concept of accountability and five subordinate "conceptions" of accountability, corresponding to distinctive sets of institutional arrangements, are presented to understand the change in accountability in the UK.