Accountability and its Metaphors: From Forum to Agora and Bazaar
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12/09/2014
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Resumo |
In this paper we seek to develop a ‘relational’ perspective on accountability and on so-called ‘unaccountability.’. We focus on Mark Bovens’s use of the forum metaphor in his accountability model, arguing that his relational perspective is too narrow. We advocate instead a far broader and more fundamental engagement with the idea of relational accountability. Expanding the metaphors, we point to two other accountability spaces: ‘agora,’ a primordial accountability space and ‘bazaar,’ an emergent accountability space rooted in ground-level exchange between different actors. Assertions about ‘unaccountability,’ we argue, very often reflect a failure to appreciate the fundamentally relational nature of accountability: those who use such assertions as bases for action aimed at making situations, processes or people ‘more accountable’ in fact seek to assert or impose a certain form of relationship – one that is hierarchical and monopolistic – and reflect therefore a drive to power and domination. |
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application/pdf |
Identificador |
http://pure.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/13032528/COK_MJD_EGPA_Paper.pdf |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Direitos |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Fonte |
O'Kelly , C & Dubnick , M 2014 , ' Accountability and its Metaphors: From Forum to Agora and Bazaar ' . |
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conferenceObject |