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Article: A generic multiple constituency matrix: accountability in private prisons.
- Article from:
- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Accountability is fundamental to regulating everyday relationships between individuals and organizations (Cummings and Anton 1990). Holding others to account involves the process of subjectively or objectively evaluating the contribution that others have made to a consequence; and, where appropriate, calling on these others to account for the consequence and for how this consequence came about. It involves applying accountability responses such as rewarding, sponsoring, mentoring, supporting, giving feedback, counseling, training, directing, sanctioning, or punishing (Bergsteiner and Avery 2003). Typically, people are accountable to more than one "constituency" such as ...