01473pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245006100060260000900121300001500130362000800145520107600153650001901229650003101248773004801279180718b2014   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMacdonald, Kate  aThe meaning and purposes of transnational accountability  c2014  ap.426-436.  aDec  aIt is now commonplace for the language of accountability to be invoked in debates about transnational power and governance. Yet there is little agreement on whether accountability takes an analogous form between national and transnational governance domains, and thus whether transnational extension of the concept overstretches the term blurring or distorting our analysis of meanings and purposes of accountability. This paper suggests that although the same core meaning of accountability is equally relevant at transnational as at national scale, there are some notable differences in how questions about accountability for what, to whom and through what means are answered in a transnational governance setting. Nonetheless, analysing transnational accountability can enhance our understanding of important but often overlooked purposes of accountability  focusing our attention on accountability not only as a means of legitimizing and stabilizing public governance processes, but also as a vehicle for political contestation and institutional change. - Reproduced.  aAccountability  aTransnational corporations  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration