Monday, January 15, 2007

Constructing accountability

I've been reading a paper by Janet Newman 'Constructing accountability: network governance and managerial agency' that in turn led me to looking up who she is: Professor in the OU. Here's her inaugural lecture, though you may have to be a member of the OU to see it.

http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=1&whichevent=604

What is bothering me is how do I research public accountability when accountability is a construct. I've read Sinclair's 'The chameleon of accountability: Forms and discourses' that indicates models of accountability in Australian public sector, but the very term 'chameleon' indicates how variable the concept is. So how am I going to research it?

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