accountability mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaccountabilityandmechanism
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accountability
noun[U]
uk/əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/əˌkaʊn.t̬əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofaccountabilityandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For most of the twentieth century, professional accountability can be seen as the fallbackaccountabilitymechanism.
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The rest are rationed by bureaucratic units and committees through a process that is separate from the budget and has no auditing andaccountabilitymechanism.
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A logical place to start the search is with hierarchical accountability - an internalaccountabilitymechanismthat doesn't pose threats to members of the education policy subsystem.
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He wanted to know about the politicalaccountabilitymechanism.
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He was good enough to recognise the need for anaccountabilitymechanism.
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Theaccountabilitymechanismof the regional development agencies, which we debated earlier this week, is not as strong as it should be.
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The important thing is to ensure that the targets are set and are clear and that there is anaccountabilitymechanismto test whether the unit delivers those targets.
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That trust provides a good political anecdote, but it is also an important example because it attracts attention to inadequacies in theaccountabilitymechanismfor the health service.
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We want to invest money in reform and, because we have a responsibility to ensure that the money is spent well, we must have anaccountabilitymechanismin place.
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Civilian oversight of police services has become an importantaccountabilitymechanismto police powers.
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These examples suggest that there is variance across place and over time in the effectiveness of downward political accountability mechanisms.
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But to date, no studies have addressed the variance in the successful implementation of publishing school performance monitoring, downward political accountability mechanisms and school choice.
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They might, for example, make contact subject to a range of conditions (including, of course, non-violence), and establish monitoring and accountability mechanisms in relation to those conditions.
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They thus argue that accountability mechanisms are necessarily vertical relationships in a principal-agent framework : ' agents cannot hold other agents accountable, only their principals can ' (p. 117).
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Further, they have accountability mechanisms built in through the possibility of using support people and other family members who attend the restorative justice conference to monitor these conditions.
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Williams (1997) suggests that there was never any real intention of making school governing bodies effective accountability mechanisms.
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Once the organizational chart is in place, each reporting relationship should be structured to be reciprocal, in accordance with the earlier discussion of accountability mechanisms, and accountable for healthcare priorities.
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Accountability mechanisms should focus primarily on the regional and local level.
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They have different accountability mechanisms, different management systems, training requirements and budgetary arrangements.
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