President bush yesterday called on corporate boards to hold their chief
executives more accountable by tying their pay to performance a new message
from a president who is closely allied to the business community.
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There are three near synonymous terms, accountability, responsibility and answerability, which are essentially defined through each other. These concepts have a formal triadic structure: an agent a is accountable to a principal b for an action x
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Implicitly, the definitions also suggest that accountability is individual rather than collective-that is, that nobody can be held accountable for actions done by another member of a group to which he belongs
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We need to define the idea of "holding accountable". As far as I can see, this can mean one of three things. B may dismiss a without punishing him further, punish him while retainning him as his agent, or dismiss him with additional punishment.
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A minister can hold his officials accountable by denying them promotion, demoting then, or moving them sideward to less important positions. This mechanism is also illustrated by he practice of imposing a fine or loss of job on those who fail to vote
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When people hold the government accountable, such as when the residents in a village select their council representative. But it also includes instances when the recipients of public services hold the service provider directly accountable
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The other two linkages form the two essential channels for external accountability, whereby citizens’ participation helps hold officials in government –those acting in the name of the people – accountable.
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Holding government accountable happens when farmer communities manage the flow of public irrigation water_ as happened in tunisia and more recently in egypt
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