Table of contents - Special Issue: Ethnographic explorations of accountabilities
Guest Editors: Dr Mike Rowe, Dr Jason Ferdinand
Realistic expectations: accounting for young people's progress in training programmes
Carol DevanneyThis paper aims to communicate the challenges and tensions faced by front‐line workers in negotiating the demands of performance targets and those of the young people they work…
The new GP contract in English primary health care: an ethnographic study
Ruth McDonald, Kath Checkland, Steve HarrisonThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of contracts on general practise in the UK National Health Service. In particular, it is concerned with the response of…
The persistence of the audit culture: supervision within Swedish ambulance services
Caroline WaksThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether, or to what extent, the audit society influences the professional context of Swedish pre‐hospital care.
Opening up one's everyday negotiations to inspection: The internal politics of “embedded” ethnographic research
Marja GastelaarsThis paper reflects on the output of four ethnographic research projects examining the implementation of the Dutch Inspection for Work and Income. These four reports were to open…
Reciprocal accountability: Assessing the accountability environment in Australian aboriginal affairs policy
Patrick SullivanThis paper attempts to replace the understanding of public sector accountability as a linear and hierarchical process with one in which accountability occurs within a network of…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Rocco Palumbo