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Measuring Justice Managing with Numbers and Numerical Reflexivity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2019
Accountability always involves at least two parties (‘A’ and ‘B’): A, who has been entrusted with authority, discretion and/or money and who has therefore the duty to take responsibility and explain and justify certain actions and decisions to B; and B, who has some form of authority to compel A to act in a particular way and who has the right to ask questions and to demand an account from A about what she did or did not do (Sinclair 1995; Mashaw 2006; Messner 2009). A crucial moment in this relationship is, according to various accountability scholars, that those to whom accountability is to be rendered, have to be convinced – after they received the accounts – that accountability has indeed been rendered. They state that while expectations of how accountability should be demonstrated are never static (Dowdle 2006), they often have a ‘cultural stamp’ (Strathern 2000a: 2).
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