Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability

Social Accountability in Cambodia

Mass Media and Political Accountability∗

Mass media can play a key role in enabling citizens to monitor the actions of incumbents and to use this information in their voting decisions. This can lead to government which is more accountable and responsive to its citizens’ needs. In spite of the intuitive plausibility of the proposition, there is comparatively little work in the political economy literature that scrutinizes the role and ...

Organizational accountability in a just culture.

Policies and procedures exist to safeguard patients and protect them from harm; however, a deeper understanding as to why a particular sentinel event occurred and less focus on the individual who made the error can have positive outcomes. Nursing leaders should strive to maintain a just culture to promote reporting and learning in their facility, thereby creating a culture of safety for patients.

How do undergraduate medical students perceive social accountability?

AIM The concept of social accountability within undergraduate training is embedded within the remit of medical schools. Little is known of how medical students perceive social accountability, recognize aspects of their training contributing to the development of this concept and cultivate the underpinning values. METHODS Students nearing graduation were recruited to participate in focus group...

Supporting Organizational Accountability Inside Multiagent Systems

We present and analyze the problem of realizing an accountabilitysupporting system in multiagent systems technology. To this aim and to avoid ambiguities, we first characterize the concept of accountability, which we later work to realize computationally, particularly in relation to the partially overlapping notion of responsibility. Then, with the aim of achieving accountability as a design pr...