This paper draws on the work of Butler [Butler, J. (2005). Giving an account of oneself. New York: Fordham University Press] to develop a critique of the operation and adequacy of transparency as a form of accountability. The paper begins with an exploration of accountability as subjection explored through Lacan’s account of the social dynamics of recognition, and Freud’s account of guilt. This...

Governments of both the right and left espouse community participation as a means of engaging with their constituencies. Concepts such as social capital, social justice, social participation, social coalition, equity, and communitarianism, are frames through which social policies are viewed. These directions in social policy (‘whole of government’) approaches in Australia; the ‘third way’ and ‘...

in this paper, by using a model of the new keynesians, we investigated the role of the central bank's accountability to shocks that causes deviations in the performance of the monetary policymakers. for this purpose, we used quarterly data for 69: 1 to 93: 3, and estimated the basic equations of the new keynesians model. then, by calculating the optimal values for the central bank's a...

Social accountability is increasingly invoked as a way of improving health services. This article presents a theory-driven qualitative study of the context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social accountability program, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), implemented by World Vision (WV) in Zambia. Primary data were collected between November 2013 and January 2014. It included in-depth interviews and ...

BACKGROUND Social accountability has to be configured according to the context in which it operates. This paper aimed to identify local contextual factors in two health zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and discuss their possible influences on shaping, implementing and running social accountability initiatives. METHODS Data on local socio-cultural characteristics, the governance c...

The pervasiveness of social media in modern communication has created increased liability for healthcare providers when trying to safeguard patients' protected health information (PHI). This article addresses a few of the most basic but pervasive ways, including "friending," "tagging," and "blogging," that PHI is unthinkingly shared on social media platforms and the precautions that providers c...

Compatibilism is the view that determinism is compatible with acting freely and being morally responsible. Incompatibilism is the opposite view. It is often claimed that compatibilism or incompatibilism is a natural part of ordinary social cognition. That is, it is often claimed that patterns in our everyday social judgments reveal an implicit commitment to either compatibilism or incompatibili...