Do We Mean What We Say for Accountability in Ghana?

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Conceptos de rendición de cuentas en idiomas Mayas de Guatemala

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Communicating Accountability Concepts in Mayan Languages of Guatemala

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Pananagutan: Accountability and the Struggle for Filipino Nationhood

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Contraloría Social – or “Social Oversight”

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Contraloría social

{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} English Version: Contraloría Social – or “Social Oversight” La contraloría social (CS) se puede definir como los dispositivos y mecanismos de participación ciudadana institucionalizada orientadas a la rendición de cuentas (figura 1).  Sus características distintivas son dos: 1) sus funciones…

Accountability Ecosystems: The Evolution of a Keyword

{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} Efforts to strengthen the accountability of the governing to the governed go back millennia. However, in the past decade there has been a renewed debate about how to advance public accountability. One domain where this conversation has taken place is…

La rendición de cuentas desde arriba versus la democracia: El caso de la Procuraduría General de la Nación de Colombia

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Top-down Accountability vs. Electoral Democracy: The Case of Colombia’s Inspector General

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Public Ouvidorias in Brazil: From Accounting to Multifaceted Accountability

{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} Versão em português: Ouvidorias públicas no Brasil: do controle contábil-financeiro ao controle social The word ouvidoria is a neologism, or a new word formed of the verb ouvir (to listen), meaning that ouvidorias are state agencies meant to listen to…