This article provides the basis for a framework that conceptualizes accountability as an abstraction of political ideology. By linking accountability processes and mechanisms to both visions of the public good and to the principles and elements that undergird the concept of accountability, a more comprehensive understanding of the activities and the associated rhetoric that have been subsumed under the accountability rubric is developed.
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