... understanding of the notion. It defines transitional justice as “the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society's attempts to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation.” However, the chapter argues...

...This chapter discusses Mary Lou Williams’s work to establish the Bel Canto Foundation in the late 1950s and 1960s, primarily through her Bel Canto Thrift Shop. Williams worked tirelessly to manage her shop, to account for her finances, and to aspire to realize a support system for musicians in need...

...This chapter outlines how police accountability, transparency, and fairness acts as hedges against racially and ethnically biased policing. It pays attention to the adoption of internal and external controls as means toward departmental accountability—steps that, through their reduction of police...

...This chapter calls for more rigorous monitoring of the manner in which police conduct themselves and serve the public by tying it to democratic policing—an orientation that requires the ready flow and capture of information related to police accountability, transparency, and fairness. It describes...

...This chapter examines the institutional relations of worker accountability and vulnerability that the 1996 reform has imposed within the welfare office, as well as its significance for the restructuring of the global labor market beyond. It specifically focuses on how welfare office reorganization...

...Susan J. Shaw’s chapter examines the management and regulation of low-income residents' access to and coverage for medications in Massachusetts. This chapter shows how Medicaid patients experience accountability in health care as they struggle to pay out-of-pocket costs for their medications...

... deliberation and the ways that social profits are sold. It then considers notions of deliberative democracy and “designer democracy” and goes on to discuss professional deliberation consultants' moral discourses of their simultaneous embrace of anticommercialism and accountability that both have their roots...

... between helping the needy, documenting accountability and transparency, and being “soul-changing” for those involved. It shows that those who are supposed to become “empowered” are forced to manage unintended contradictions between rhetoric and reality. In their effort to mesh civic participation...

...This concluding chapter focuses on leaders' accountability. Accountability is a procedure that happens once a violation has occurred. It requires a timely and accurate account of actions and policies. From time to time, democratic leaders face difficult choices in preserving national security...

... that the federal government will need to go beyond simply requiring that education be a right. In other words, the federal government also will need to ensure that at-risk students receive additional resources and accountability mechanisms to ensure that the key ingredients to success are available regardless...

...The book is divided into three sections: The first section, Cultivating Feminist Accountability, explores practices of accountability that embrace critical engagement of the power lines that shape our identities, relationships, and communities as we engage in feminist movement...

... of accountability for the perpetuation of violence. Since the early 2000s, the critical engagement of this institutionalization gained momentum with the innovative approaches of community accountability and transformative justice that (re)politicize feminist work to end violence. In this chapter, I illustrate how...

...The killing of George Floyd by law enforcement in 2020 became a catalyst for fundamental change in the justice system, including police accountability and progressive prosecution. That moment of brutality prompted broad-based, intergenerational uprisings across the country even in the midst...

... of accountability that are central to the criminal justice system. discrimination gender based Friedan Betty Ivins Molly violence against women Burstyn Varda Civil Rights Commission U S Meyer Carlin pornography American Civil Liberties Union ACLU Clinton administration McCormack Thelma Pally Marcia...

... in the struggle to end abuse, and develop community accountability for abuse....

... on public goods, and weakening party discipline diminishes political accountability. Arab Spring European Union Putin Vladimir Soviet Union Identity politics Political parties Schattschneider Elmer Eric Schumpeter Joseph Carey John M Elections Proportional representation Shugart Matthew Soberg...

... into the public frame and shaping critical interventions to it, it also collaterally immunized the state from accountability by paradoxically positioning the crisis of domestic violence and accountability for effective interventions squarely on victims and victim support networks. Expanding the politicization...

...This chapter introduces the concept of cultivating accountability as a praxis that brings conscious awareness to how much our work as antiviolence scholars, advocates, organizers, and activists has been impacted by and implicated within hierarchical and intersectional relations of power footed...

...This chapter responds to Debra Satz’s paper. It argues that a more expansive conception of accountability, which addresses the structural transformation of governance, includes concerns about distortion and equality. Through examples of security and military privatization, Dickinson maintains...

...This introductory chapter explains the gravitational theory of accountability. This theory has one central proposition: blame falls to the bottom. In particular, when things go wrong with a policy, people try to shift the blame. Those best placed to do this are those at the top. Even when...