Objective: The present study was to identify the dimensions and components of promoting accountability of high school principals in Hormozgan province. Method: The present study was a qualitative, descriptive and thematic analysis with an exploratory inductive approach. In this study, up to data saturation, 10 experts who had done research in the field of educational management and were expe...

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...

When do citizens’ voices and demands result in improved state responsiveness, transparency and accountability? First, when the citizenry is active in shaping policy priorities and demanding greater openness and responsiveness from the state. Second, if state institutions view their responsibilities to citizens as central. In reality, however, the state in many developing countries is not suffic...

Sanitizable signatures enable a designated party to modify signed documents in a controlled way, while the derived signature still verifies. In this paper, we introduce the notion of non-interactive and public accountability. It allows a third party to determine whether a message-signature pair was issued by the signer or the sanitizer. The original notion of accountability does not satisfy Eur...

Data-accountability encompasses responsibility for data and the traceability of data flows. This is becoming increasingly important for Socio-Technical Systems (STS). Determining root causes for unwanted events after their occurrence is often not possible, e.g. because of missing logs. A better traceability of root causes can be supported by the integration of accountability mechanisms at desig...

public accountability is a sign of modern and democratic administration. accountability has become a topic of concern in governance literature. the question of holding politicians and administration accountable in new governance environment, where many traditional means for controlling government have been no longer fully applied, has gained wide recognition. as a consequence, new types of acco...

This paper starts with a theoretical discussion on the relationship between performance and accountability in public organizations with a special focus on administrative reforms. Accountability theory is discussed and related to different aspects of performance. How ambiguous is the relationship between accountability and performance? Do different types of accountability relate to different asp...

The paper aims to explore a conceptual framework in which improvement on waqf management may be made focusing on its relationship with beneficiaries. The study uses accountability as the main theoretical lens informing this, where waqf management does not merely see beneficiaries as the passenger in the relationship, rather, as one of the means to improve waqf management. Drawing from NGO accou...

Evidence that allows assurance of accountability services, verification of compliance with the principles of accountability by serviceproviders and attribution of responsibility for breaches within the chain of accountability is essential. This paper defines how evidence may be required and proposes suitable ways of treating key accountability concepts. It shows the importance of verification a...

We consider sociotechnical systems (STSs) that facilitate social interaction among autonomous principals (either humans or organizations). Although accountability is a foundational concept in such systems, established requirements engineering methods do not support accountability in the broad sense of calling to account of one party by another. To address this shortcoming, we propose the notion...