Although excessive transparency and accountability demands can have a counterproductive effect on organisational performance (Bovens 2005), longstanding hierarchical accountability structures to ensure financial conformance in English local government continue to endure. Interestingly however, the previously top-down regime for performance accountability in English local government has been rep...

The Social Construction of Accountability: Radiologists and Their Recordkeeping Practices Elizabeth Yakel Abstract Recordkeeping practices are a central means by which organizations demonstrate accountability. These practices, though, are socially constructed and owe as much to organizational or professional cultural and ethical norms as laws or procedural manuals. This paper discusses of accou...

The standard technical approach to privacy and security in online life is preventive: Before someone can access confidential data or take any other action that implicates privacy or security, he should be required to prove that he is authorized to do so. As the scale and complexity of online activity has grown, it has become apparent that the preventive approach is inadequate; thus, a growing s...

The inherent lack of control of users over their data raises various security and privacy challenges in Cloud Computing. One approach to encourage customers to take advantage of the Cloud is the design of new accountability solutions which aid and enable customers to control and be informed on how their data is processed. In this paper, we focus on accountability policies and propose A-PPL, an ...

The principal and school leadership team have established and are driving a strong, positive learning culture, grounded in evidence from research and practice. Explicit and clear school-wide expectations have been established with families, teachers, and students. Strong procedures are in place to encourage a school-wide, shared responsibility for student management, and to encourage the develo...

In this article, we advance a cultural perspective on accountability in organizations. We seek to demonstrate that societal culture forces for accountability are found at multiple levels in organizations—from the individual, to the interpersonal and group context, and to the organization at large, which collectively form a loosely coupled accountability web or system [Frink & Klimoski, Res. Per...

O ur evaluation theory tree is presented in Figure 2.1, in which we depict the trunk and the three primary branches of the family tree. The trunk is built on a dual foundation of accountability and systematic social inquiry. These two areas have supported the development of the field in different ways. The need and desire for accountability presents a need for evaluation. The importance of acco...

Little has been written about how regulatory bodies define and demonstrate accountability. This paper describes a substudy of a research project on accountability in healthcare. The aim was to increase understanding of how regulatory bodies perceive and demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with provincial/territorial CEOs from th...

The baseline model assumed that all voters are informed if there is at least one informative outlet. This may be unrealistic because it presupposes that people are willing to switch to a di¤erent outlet if their usual outlet does not have interesting news. The goal of the present section is to consider a more general model where some viewers are ‡exible (they are willing to switch to a di¤erent...