Accountability and its metaphors: from the forum to the agora and bazar
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In this paper we seek to develop a «relational» perspective on accountability and on so-called «unaccountability». We focus on Mark Bovens’s use of the forum metaphor in his ac-countability model, arguing that his relational perspective is too narrow. We advocate instead a far broader and more fundamental engagement with the idea of relational accountability. Expanding the metaphors, we point to two other accountability spaces: «agora», a primordial accountability space and «bazaar», an emergent accountability space rooted in ground-level exchange between different actors...
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