征稿期刊

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 4.6

Q1 (BUSINESS, FINANCE 29/231)

征稿主题

Accountability, democracy and participation in tumultuous societies: making it count

细分领域

Whether and how participation makes a difference in the discharge of different forms of accountability

The extent to which participation makes citizens responsible/accountable for the choices of the state in which they participate

Links between accountability, transparency and participation to the meaning of democracy and its associated concepts

The extent to which accountability, transparency and participation are particularly relevant concepts only in democratic regimes, and whether, and how, they can be part of the system of a non-democratic or totalitarian state

How accountability, transparency and participation support each other during public-service provision

The role of (accounting) professions in influencing government accountability and transparency

The historical role that accounting has played in enhancing the politics of external and organisational participation

Formal versus less formal protocols of accountability and participation

The engagement with, and understanding by, citizens (and politicians and other potential users) with regard to public-service accountability systems

Accountability, accounts and counter accounts in the provision of public services

Participation (and saliency) of stakeholder groups in the construction of performance-measurement frameworks

The use of performance-measurement frameworks in facilitating participation

The impact of neoliberalism on the participatory processes and opportunities to express ‘voice’

Different forms and plausibility of citizen involvement (e.g., co-production) in public-service provision and accountability processes

The role of, and accountability to, volunteers in participatory processes

New forms and experiences of participative budgeting

Experiences of different organisational budgeting systems, and views from controllers and line managers

Organisational participation and voice processes

The role of nonprofit organisations, and their internal and external accountability, in the delivery of public services.

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026