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“You Talking to Me?” Accountability and the Modern Public Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2005

Patricia Wallace Ingraham
Patricia Wallace Ingraham
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Syracuse University
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My topic today is accountability of the federal public service. Democratic accountability is at the core of both public administration and political science because, inherently, democratic government is accountable government. For that reason, it is worrisome that present definitions and systems of accountability are out of date, perhaps even seriously broken.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 17 - 21
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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