Calibrating Public Sector Accountability: Translating experimental findings to public sector accountability

Thomas Schillemans

Public Management Review, 2016, vol. 18, issue 9, 1400-1420

Abstract: Accountability mechanisms are among the most important means with which governments guard and improve the performance of public sector organizations. However, research documents a plethora of accountability-failures. A key issue is: how can public sector accountability become more effective? This paper seeks to answer this question by connecting two largely separated strands of research: public administration research on real-world organizations and experimental research on the effects of different forms of accountability on decision-making. The paper develops the Calibrated Public Accountability-model (CPA-model) from experimental research findings which can be used to investigate how accountability can be calibrated to task requirements of organizations.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2015.1112423

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