It’s time for leaders to practice soft and horizontal accountability: the notion of burden of office has become quite fuzzy, and so has the concept of accountability
Accountability refers to the requirement to answer for the discharge of a duty or for conduct. This presupposes an agreement on what constitutes an acceptable performance, and what constitutes an acceptable language of justification.
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