Accountability and change

Intelligent Accountability: Sound-Bite or Sea-Change?

In Scottish education, as in other public services in Britain, there has been growing emphasis on performance management, quality assurance and accountability over the past two decades. However, recent policies from the Scottish Executive appear to signal a shift away from the “topdown” systems that focus on measuring and comparing attainment, to approaches that gives more scope to teachers’ pr...

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

Challenges to professionalism: Social accountability and global environmental change.

This article explores the concept of professionalism as it relates to social change and social accountability, and expands on them in the light of global environmental changes. Professionalism in medicine includes concepts of altruism, service, professional knowledge, self-regulation and autonomy. Current dialogues around social accountability suggest that medical schools should re-orientate th...

Relationship between Ethics Institutionalization and Management Accountability

Background: Accountability has been and is an important and challenging issue in most countries' administrative and political systems and lack of proper and timely response to employees leads to a climate of distrust and coldness. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between institutionalization of ethics and accountability. Method: This is an applied research...

Privatization and Political Accountability

This article draws some general connections between privatization and political accountability. Although the main focus of the article is to examine different types of privatization, specifically exploring the ramifications for political accountability of each type, I also engage in some speculation as to whether there are situations in which privatization might raise constitutional concerns re...