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...

This article examines the issues of accountability and transparency of government finance in Ukraine. The research explains the significance of financial accountability for the economic improvement and civil society development. The study defines the instruments that contribute to government accountability in the digital world. The key problems of ensuring financial accountability and transpare...

We consider a team production problem in which the principal observes only the team output and not individual effort. As is well known, inefficiencies may arise when each team member’s compensation is based only on his individual action, so that team members are not penalized or rewarded as a group, as is often the case in practice. We show that it is possible to overcome this problem by specif...

Audit has become prevalent throughout UK Universities and in associated institutions such as funding bodies and national government. There is pressure from funding bodies for Universities to be seen as audited, for Universities to be accountable and held to account, and messages from central government about the need for greater transparency of processes and greater responsibility for action. T...

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...

We can reasonably assume continued rapid expansion in our understanding of the biology of mental illness, an increase in effective psychotherapeutic interventions, a strong demand for more educational and clinical accountability, and application of innovative technology to teaching—all in the context of a worsening physician shortage. Each of these factors requires significant revisions to our ...

This article explores participatory governance in the context of participatory mechanisms of accountability for urban services. In the past few years, accountability has become a buzzword internationally and, as is the case with many such terms, there is confusion as to what exactly is meant. The people and organizations promoting accountability view it as critical to solving problems with urba...

participation can be defined as a decision making process influencing on life. this term has been used and discussed more or jess by other scholars but recently it has got new versions of application. one of the recent versions can be called children's social participation which came to existence in recent decades following children rights convention. this fact can be brought into account ...