Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies

In contemporary public governance, leaders of organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey CEO’s agencies in seven countries, we explore whether how conflictual regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s their political principals. The presence is experienced as major challenge associated important behavioral responses those CEO’s. This article demonstrates empirically related (a) controlling principals, (b) constituency building agencies, (c) general pattern intensified contacts information processing both parties.