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This document discusses accountability in public administration. It defines accountability as the rules and precedents by which public officials can be held responsible for their actions. It outlines various types of accountability, including moral, administrative, political, and legal accountability. It also describes different controls on public administration, including internal controls like budgets and ethics, and external controls like legislative control through laws and oversight, executive control through policymaking, and judicial control through legal remedies. The document emphasizes that accountability is important to control potential misuse of power by public administrators and ensure their actions comply with laws and regulations.

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Accountability

This document discusses accountability in public administration. It defines accountability as the rules and precedents by which public officials can be held responsible for their actions. It outlines various types of accountability, including moral, administrative, political, and legal accountability. It also describes different controls on public administration, including internal controls like budgets and ethics, and external controls like legislative control through laws and oversight, executive control through policymaking, and judicial control through legal remedies. The document emphasizes that accountability is important to control potential misuse of power by public administrators and ensure their actions comply with laws and regulations.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Mirza Faran Baig


XI. Public Administration: Accountability & Control

• Institutional Framework for Administrative


Accountability;
• Legislative, Executive and Judicial Control over
Administration, Administrative Corruption;
• Role of Civil Society in Good Governance,
Media, Interest Groups, Civil Society
Organizations; The Situation in Pakistan.
History and Etymology
• "Accountability" stems from late
Latin accomptare (to account), a prefixed form
of computare (to calculate), which in turn derived
from putare (to reckon).
• Word itself does not appear in English until its
use in 13th century Norman England.
• The concept of account-giving has ancient roots
in record keeping activities related to governance
and money-lending systems that first developed
in ancient Israel, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and
later, Rome.
DEFINITION BY L.D. WHITE
• “Administrative responsibility
consists of the sum total of the
constitutional, statutory ,
administrative and judicial rules and
precedents and the established
practices by means of which public
officials may be held accountable for
their official actions”.
Types of Accountability
Types of Accountability
Bruce Stone, O.P. Dwivedi, and Joseph G. Jabbra list
8 types of accountability, namely:
• Moral,
• Administrative,
• Political,
• Managerial,
• Market,
• Legal/Judicial,
• Constituency relation
• Professional.
Types of Controls of
Administration
Internal Controls:
Types of Controls of Administration
• Internal Controls:
• Budgetary control
• Personal management control
• Efficiency survey control
• Professional morality control or Professional
ethics
• Administrative Leader Ship
• Administrative Process
• Hierarchical order
• Annual Confidential reports (PERs)
Types of Controls of
Administration

External Controls:

Legislative Control
Types of Controls of Administration
• External Controls:
1. Legislative Control
• Questions
• Resolutions & Motions
• Debates and Discussions
• Passing Laws
• Control of Appropriations
• Audit & Report
• Committees of legislative
Types of Controls of
Administration

External Controls:

Executive Control
Types of Controls of Administration
• External Controls:
2. EXECUTIVE CONTROL
• Methods of executive control
• Policy making
• Recruitment system
• Staff agencies
• Executive orders
Types of Controls of
Administration

External Controls:

Judicial Control
Types of Controls of Administration
• External Controls:
3. JUDICIAL CONTROL (Remedies)
• Writ of Mandamus
• Rule of Law system
• Habeas Corpus
• Injuction
• Prohibition
• Certiorari
• Quo-Warranto
Types of Controls of
Administration

External Controls:

Public Control
Types of Controls of Administration
• External Controls:

4. Public Control
• Elections
• Re-call
• Pressure Group
• Advisory Committees
• Vigorous Public Opinion: Media
Control over Administration

• Parliamentary
• Executive

• Judicial
PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL
PARLIAMENTARY
• Control of appropriations or Budgetary
Control
• Control over delegated legislation through
committee of delegated legislation
• Question hour

• Control through audit


EXECUTIVE CONTROL
EXECUTIVE CONTROL
• Method of Executive Control of
Administration
• Control through policy-making
• Control through Budgetary system
• Control through Recruitment
• Control through Executive law making
and power of issuing of ordinances
JUDICIAL CONTROL
JUDICIAL CONTROL
• Leak of Jurisdiction

• Error of Law

• Error of Fact-Finding

• Abuse of Authority

• Error of Procedure
Difference between Responsibility
and Accountability:
• Prof. Pfiffener makes a distinction between Responsibility
and Accountability.
• Accountability refers to the formal and specific location of
responsibility while responsibility is a highly personal
moral quality and is not necessarily related to formal
status or power.
• Responsibility refers to the public servants.
• Responsiveness to public will while Accountability
denotes the specific method and procedure to enforce
the public servant’s responsibility.
• Responsibility therefore is subjective and works from
within. On the other hand, accountability is objective and
works from without.
Difference between Responsibility
and Accountability:
• In order to control the misuse of power by bureaucracy it
must be made subject to accountability.
• The main purpose of accountability is to make sure that
bureaucracy exercises its powers in accordance with laws
and regulations.
• The objective of the administration Accountability is two
fold, on the one hand the check should fully safeguard
the individual’s rights and on the other hand there should
not hampered the normal activities of the administrator.
• Its effectiveness is revealed by the balance between the
democracy land bureaucracy.
THANK
YOU

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