Accountability in the modern state has two major meanings, which overlap. Firstly there is the standard meaning, common in democracies, that those who exercise power, whether as governments, as elected representatives or as appointed officials, are in...

A word imported from business and commerce into education during the 1960s, initially in the USA. Despite various academic attacks on the concept of accountability on grounds of lack of clarity, and the fact that education is more complex than the...

The quality of subordinate workers being responsible for their own work and answerable to a...

Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as answerability, enforcement, responsibility, blameworthiness, liability and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving. As...