Abstract
This essay evaluates the growing divide between the academic consensus on governance accountability and the persistent evasion of answerability by contemporary political actors. While political players routinely treat accountability as a retrospective, upward-reporting administrative chore or a PR exercise in “retail governance,” modern scholarly consensus demonstrates that true accountability is multidimensional, downwardly oriented, and fundamentally operationalized through intersubjective communication. This paper demonstrates: (1) how accountability actually functions today across complex, lateral, and downward networks—unmasking the myths of linear hierarchy and market self-regulation; (2) why genuine accountability must synthesize structural comprehensiveness with methodological compassion (panser), moving beyond punitive audit-culture “satisficing”; (3) how the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) operationalises accountability through the POLICE diagnostic engine, Universal Pragmatics, the Law of Responsibility Burden, and the developmental ascent from “Junior” execution to “Senior” social accountability; and (4) why political actors can no longer ignore these systemic requirements in an age of automated denoetization, algorithmic burden-shifting, and escalating civilisational crisis.
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Neville Buch
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