Seeking salvation for accountability

This paper by Melvin Dubnick (prepared for 2002 annual meeting of the American Political Science association) distinguishes between the word accountability and the concept accountability. In discussing the word he points out the difficulty of translating accountability into other languages. I know some of the major romance languages so had already realised the problem there would be when I was anticipating having to research all the literature even in other languages if I move onto writing a doctoral thesis. Transferring that problem of language knowledge, I suspected that other languages would be equally intransigent. Dubnik indeed reports:
“The result is there exists little room in those languages for a possible distinction between the conceptualisation of accountability (as a concept) and responsibility."