Review of accountability

I'm to review the literature on accountability. I read literature on this for my MRes and attempted to make sense of the construct of accountability, writing and rewriting for months. If I'm to review the literature I suppose I go back to what I had first time round, and reread it. And add to it.

Searches
I've been search EBSCO for 'accountability' with other words:

• public accountability
• public accountability AND logic
• logic of accountability
• accountabilities AND logics
• public accountability AND review
• public accountability AND review AND literature- no recent review of the literature on accountability
• Accountability review NOT accounting
• participatory accountability - results seem to be about poverty & third world
• participatory theory AND accountability
• accountability AND risk-taking
• ethical accountability - the results seem to relate to adverts

Then I followed up some systems writing by Flood [1] and looked for

• public accountability AND structure - best is Pugh et al from years ago
  
• public accountability AND processes
• public accountability AND meaning - hits seem a bit old
  
• public accountability AND power AND knowledge - no hits here
• public accountability AND power
  

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[1] Flood, Robert, L., Rethinking the Fifth Discipline: Learning Within the Unknowable (Paperback)at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rethinking-Fifth-Discipline-Learning-Unknowable/dp/0415185300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196353306&sr=8-1