PENGARUH PENGETAHUAN DEWAN TENTANG ANGGARAN, PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT, TRANSPARANSI KEBIJAKAN PUBLIK DAN AKUNTABILTAS PUBLIK TERHADAP PENGAWASAN KEUANGAN DAERAH

This study aims to empirically examine the effect of the council's knowledge of the budget, public participation, public policy transparency and public accountability on the regional financial control of Bireuen Regency. The data used are primary, secondary and interview data. Data obtained through the distribution of questionnaires to research respondents. The population in this study were all members of the Bireuen Regency DPRD for the 2019-2024 period, Budget Users (PA) and Financial Management Officers (PPK) in all Regional Government Organizations (OPD) and the community. The sample in this study used the census/saturated sample method for members of the DPRD of Bireuen Regency for the 2019-2024 period and all local government organizations (OPD). Meanwhile, the community sample used purposive sampling consisting of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), community leaders, community organizations, academics, students and the mass media. The data analysis method uses multiple regression analysis method using SPSS 23 Software program. The partial test results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the variables of the Council's Knowledge of Influential Budgets, public participation, transparency of public policies and public accountability for the Regional Financial Supervision of Bireuen Regency.

Journalists’ moves in political press conferences and their implications for accountability

Political press conferences are important spaces for public accountability because they give journalists the opportunity to scrutinize politicians’ decisions. However, the structure of press conferences poses specific constraints to journalists because their role is limited to ask questions. This situation is not problematic if their goal is to ask informative or critical questions, but it becomes problematic if journalists want to advance standpoints, arguments, or criticisms. In the latter case, journalists have to perform their argumentative moves through façade questions in order to comply with the protocol of press conferences. For this reason, it is not easy to distinguish the argumentative function of journalists’ questions, and consequently, their value for accountability. This paper draws on the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation to give an argumentative account of political press conferences. Furthermore, the implications of journalists’ questions for accountability purposes are discussed.

The Effect of Leadership and Motivation in Measuring Accountability Using the Calibrating Public Accountability Model (CPA Model)

The use of school aid funds (BOS) must be accounted for by the beneficiary schools. The performance of a school can be judged by how good the accountability of the school is. The principal plays an important role in realizing accountability in the school he leads. The principal's leadership and motivation are factors that can encourage the achievement of good school accountability. This study aims to determine the effect of leadership and motivation in measuring accountability using the CPA (Calibrating Public Accountability Model) measurement model. The research method used is quantitative verification. The population in this study were all school principals in West Bandung Regency and Cimahi City with the sample technique using a simple random technique. Data collection techniques using questionnaires. Data analysis technique using PLS. The results showed that there was an effect of leadership on accountability, while motivation had no effect on accountability. Simultaneously leadership and motivation affect accountability.

Ethical leadership and public accountability: Problematiques of South Africa’s State-Owned Enterprises

This paper aims to explore the potency of ethical frameworks in the advent of a democratic dispensation in State-Owned Enterprises in an attempt to address conundrums of unethical leadership and devastating public accountability. This paper argues that South Africa is grappling with fitting in the notion of ethos and accountability. On the same line, the contestation about the impasse of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) befits germane in the topical and constant political transformation in South Africa. SOEs endure eccentric to those serving it and those who benefit from it, leading to a lack of orthodoxy by public officials to ethical framework prescribed and contemplated in legislation for good conduct in public services. Ethical leadership and public accountability are two sides of the same coin; however, they serve as a nut and bolt of a well-functioning public administration. The two are inseparable. The paper is theoretical as such, and it is epistemologically juxtaposed and grounded or underpinned by agency theory and its ideals. Be that as it may, it further depends on literature base review for its premise, argument, crux, and purpose and drawing up results and conclusion. Thus, the paper gathers information regarding the various scholars’ notions on ethical leadership and public accountability from related articles, journals, and books. The paper reveals that the South African State-Owned Enterprises are antagonized and branded by unethical leaders and public accountability challenges. At this juncture, the SOEs are faced with poor fiscal coordination and management. The paper further reveals that the SOEs are swimming in the pool of debts. The conclusion that can be deduced from this paper is that it calls for strengthening and reforming all legislative prescripts that govern the State-Owned Enterprises. Public administrators must avoid incubating politicians as it creates the ground for corruption and various types of ethical dilemmas.

Informal Accountability, Distrust, and Speaking Out

Accountability did not operate solely through formal audits, institutions or legal processes; informal and public forms of accountability were also particularly important, not least as a pressure on Parliament, the East India Company and other institutions (often themselves seen as corrupt), to increase their oversight of officers. Such public accountability could take many forms but the chapter focuses on people (often officials themselves) who made public revelations when they felt that formal accountability mechanisms had failed. These men might now be called ‘whistle-blowers’ but in the pre-modern period their behaviour struggled to achieve legitimacy. The chapter surveys the variety of their motives and shows how they fought to expose and remedy corruption, often using print to do so, before sketching the negative ways in which their institutions reacted to their complaints and publicity.

Developing epistemic impartiality to deliver on justice in higher education South Africa

In South Africa, the scholarship of epistemic justice has taken on an historical gaze with higher education framed as a social institution that might ameliorate the historical traumas of colonialism. Undoing the legacies of colonialism has been framed as the democratisation of the knowledge project. Using the White Paper 3 of 1997 that posits academic freedom, institutional autonomy and public accountability as fundamental to institutional governance, in part I of this analysis I broadened public accountability to include the social, political and economic factors that inhibit or act as catalyst to the attainment of educational desire. In this second part publication, I am interested in developing and proposing epistemic impartiality. This concept is developed from Mitova’s proposition of ‘decolonising knowledge without too much relativism’, which ultimately fosters epistemic justice through rigorously scrutinising each epistemic tradition. My suggestion is that epistemic impartiality enables dialogue between divergent traditions.