Social Responsibility and Accountability of Farming

Honouring social accountability: a moral responsibility of the medical profession.

Retractions of scientific publications: responsibility and accountability

This evidence-based opinion piece gives a short overview of the increase in retractions of publications in scientific journals and discusses various reasons for that increase. Also discussed are some of the recent prominent cases of scientific misconduct, the number of authors with multiple retractions, and problems with reproducibility of published research. Finally, some of the effects of fau...

Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and responsibility

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org A published in peer-reviewed journals are the medium by which scientists present their findings to the scholarly community. The quality and quantity of publications are essential components for building careers, funding projects, and generating a sense of accomplishment and self-worth (Lindsey 1980). The past five decades have seen ...

Government Responsibility and Electoral Accountability in Federations

Because federalism can be a threat to accountability, a model of voting behavior in federations must accommodate voters' attributions of responsibility to each order of government for policy outcomes. This study uses a panel survey of Canadians in both federal and provincial elections to ask whether voters are able to hold governments accountable in a federal context. Voters may ignore issues w...

Accountability and Reflective Responsibility in Information Systems

This paper discusses the role of accountability in responsibility ascriptions regarding information and communication technology (ICT). It starts with a definition of responsibility as the social construct representing the ascription of an object to a subject. Recounting the traditional responsibility, the paper will point out the weaknesses of responsibility with regards to ICT. It will then p...