01634nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100004500060245005500105260002700160300003200187520109000219773002701309906002601336942000701362952010701369  c515896d515896210211b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBenish, Avishai and Mattei, Paola924192  aAccountability and hybridity in welfare governance  aPublic Administration   a98(2), Jun, 2020: p.281-290  aHybridity has become a central characteristic of accountability in public governance. Contemporary service delivery is increasingly defined by the mixing and layering of public, market and social accountability regimes operating as overlapping ‘hybrid’ accountability arrangements. Although hybrid accountability is not a new phenomenon, recent trends have accelerated the process of hybridization, particularly in welfare state governance. In this symposium, we seek to advance our understanding of the under‐theorized concept of hybrid accountability and empirically examine what is actually going on. In this introductory article, we put forward a definition of what hybridity means in public welfare governance and explore its origins and dynamics. We then present the articles of this symposium, showing how they go beyond fixed and static typologies to grasp the dynamics of interactions between actors, values and mechanisms under hybrid accountability. We conclude by reflecting on a future research agenda for studying hybrid accountability arrangements. – Reproduced   aPublic Administration   aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION  cAR  00102ddc40709389994aIIPAbIIPAd2021-02-11h98(2), Jun, 2020: p.281-290pAR124272r2021-02-11yAR