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Explore the complexities of accountability in ethics at the Orders of Accountability World Ethics Forum in April 2006 with Melvin J. Dubnick from the University of New Hampshire. Addressing conceptual, rhetorical, and practical challenges, this forum delves into the misuse and abuse of accountability, its theoretical and practical implications, and the application across various sectors. Discover theoretical frameworks, models, and normative speculations guiding political, professional, individual, and bureaucratic accountability. Consider the performative, regulatory, managerial, and embedded aspects influencing accountability practices.
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Orders of Accountability World Ethics Forum, April 9-12, 2006 Melvin J. Dubnick University of New Hampshire
Problems of Accountability • Conceptual • Rhetorical and iconic • Analytically weak • “Promiscuity” • Misuse/abuse • “Magical” solution to many problems (justice, democracy, ethics, performance) • Applied indiscriminately across sectors • Theoretical • A-theoretical • Vacuous
Political Accountability ProfessionalAccountability Accountable Individual BureaucraticAccountability LegalAccountability Theoretical Framings:Vector Model • Vector (horizontal) model • Dubnick/Romzek (1987, 1993…)
Performative Regulatory Managerial Embedded Theoretical Framings:Nested Model
Performative Regulatory Managerial Embedded Normative Speculations
Applications • Corporate Governance • Answerability • Protection • Performance • Representation • School Accountability • Responsibility • Control • Performance • Mission