Social equity and social justice have been a fundamental concern for public administration scholars and practitioners. So far the literature is largely normative in nature and centered on John Rawls’ theory of justice, paying less attention to how public administrators actually think about...

The credibility of performance information provided by government agencies to their stakeholders is critical to performance-based accountability and policy learning. However, the public administration literature has rarely paid attention to the determinants of honest performance reporting. This...

Personal experience is directly relevant to the development of recognition or attitudes. Unlike most previous studies that have treated people as identical objects, this study extends the current knowledge of the influence of personal experience on attitude formation by incorporating individual...

Accountability is a fundamentally important but considerably ambiguous and murky concept. Despite its elusive meaning, organizations - governmental or nongovernmental - are constantly called to be more accountable. But what does this accountability expectation exactly mean? How can managers...

Much of the appeal of performance measurement is explained by its image as a simple and value-neutral way to monitor and improve government. But contemporary governance is characterized by complexity. Few public officials have the luxury of directly providing relatively simple services, the...

This paper contributes to the understanding of accountability in collaborative governance by presenting views of practitioners from partnerships formed between K-12 public schools and private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. It focuses on two questions: what do partnership...

What function does accountability serve in public-private partnerships where one partner has no authority over others and no control over results? This article aims to shed light on this question by studying participants of partnerships formed between K-12 public schools and private and/or...