01241pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001900040245005700059260000900116300001300125362000800138520080100146650001100947650002000958650002600978650001901004773004801023180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCameron, Wayne  aPublic accountability: effectiveness, equity, ethics  c2004  ap.59-67.  aDec  aThis article tests a wide range of government activities against requirements for public accountability. The article explores the incentives for ethical behaviour by public officials; the need for more outcome focused performance indicators, tensions between parliamentary and managerial accountability; the standards of accountability applied to public providers of services can be applied to private providers; the utility of spelling out service requirements in advance; the impacts on accountability of the convergence of the public and private sectors; the need, where responsibility for programs is collaborative, for a clear governance framework, tensions between representative and participative democracy, and trends towards more participative and collaborative leadership. - Reproduced.  aEthics  aGood governance  aPublic administration  aAccountability  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration