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Accountability And Ethics: Reconsidering The Relationships, Melvin J. Dubnick
Accountability And Ethics: Reconsidering The Relationships, Melvin J. Dubnick
Political Science
ABSTRACT
While a relationship between accountability and ethics has long been assumed and debated in Public Administration, the nature of that relationship has not been examined or clearly articulated. This article makes such an effort by positing four major forms of accountability (answerability, blameworthiness, liability and attributability) and focusing on the ethical strategies developed in response to each of these forms.