The accountability paradox in an age of reinvention : the perennial problem of preserving character and judgement
By: JOS, Philip H
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Contributor(s): TOMPKINS, Mark E.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, July 2004Subject(s): Prestação de Contas | Responsabilidade AdministrativaAdministration & Society 36, 3, p. 255-281Abstract: The rapidly expanding literature on accountability reveals a centrally important paradox: Responsible interpretation and application of external accountability demands depends on the cultivation of the virtues that support good administrative judgement, but the institutions and mechanisms that are used to communicate these external standards, and that monitor compliance with them, often threaten the very qualities that support responsible judgement. Consulting a rich and varied literature, this paradox is explored as it emerges in both the more familiar compliance-based accountability processes and the less well-understood performance-based processes associated with reinventation and the new public management
The rapidly expanding literature on accountability reveals a centrally important paradox: Responsible interpretation and application of external accountability demands depends on the cultivation of the virtues that support good administrative judgement, but the institutions and mechanisms that are used to communicate these external standards, and that monitor compliance with them, often threaten the very qualities that support responsible judgement. Consulting a rich and varied literature, this paradox is explored as it emerges in both the more familiar compliance-based accountability processes and the less well-understood performance-based processes associated with reinventation and the new public management
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