Accountability and Transparency: A Nuanced Response to Etzioni
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Administration. DOI: 10.1111/puar.12303. citizens has enabled them to bypass questionable audit processes and actually increase the accountability of public bodies. After grassroots organizations demanded that the details of fi nancial transactions be published outside public buildings in the spirit of transparency, they taught groups of young people (many of whom had little education) to interpret the data and to telephone colleagues in outlying areas to determine whether the promised goods and services had actually been delivered and used. In this way, they were able to challenge the results and formal audits as a means of combatting corruption, leading to signifi cant amounts of rupees being returned to the area.
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