DMG 246

DMG 246
Public Integrity and Social Accountability

Atty. Damcelle Torres-Cortes

Institute for Governance and Rural Development
College of Public Affairs & Development
University of the Philippines Los Banos
1st Semester AY 2019-20
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Today,  Return Midterm Exam

 Field Trip final schedule: Nov 4, Mon
Sep 28  Reminders:
o CheckMySchool Prelim report (group): Oct 2, Wed
o Report on Corruption Indicators: Oct 12, Sat

 Discussion
I. Public Integrity
B. Public Institutional Integrity
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DMG 246: Public Integrity and Social Accountability

Citizens, external
stakeholders
Societal
SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Institutional
DOF, bureaus, units

PUBLIC INTEGRITY
Individual
Development Manager/
Public Servant
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Public
Institutional
Integrity PUBLIC
INTEGRITY
(Kirkby, 2018)
Public
“Institutions-first”
Officer
Integrity
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PUBLIC INTEGRITY
• “Doing the right thing the right way” (Rose and Heywood, 2013 in Kirkby, 2018)

• “Application of generally accepted public values and norms in

the daily practice of public sector organizations” (OECD, 2017 in Kirkby, 2018)

• Alignment of accountability, competence, ethics and corruption

control(Integrity Action, 2018 in Kirkby, 2018)

• “Honesty or trustworthiness in discharge of official duties”

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PUBLIC OFFICER INTEGRITY
“… is the robust disposition of a
public officer, in the course of her
public duties, to pursue the
integrity of her institution to the
best of her abilities”
(Kirkby, 2018)
KEY CRITERIA OF INTEGRITY
• Consistency and coherence
• Justifiability
• Praiseworthiness (importance,
responsibility, possibility of difficulty)
• Virtue
• Trustworthiness
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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY (Kirkby, 2018)

KEY CRITERIA OF INTEGRITY

“… is the robust disposition of a
public institution to legitimately
pursue its legitimate purpose, to
the best of its abilities, consistent
with its commitments”
• Consistency and coherence
• Justifiability
• Praiseworthiness (importance,
responsibility, possibility of difficulty)
• Virtue
• Trustworthiness
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Opposites of Public Institutional Integrity

• (Institutional) Corruption (OECD, 2005),
• Institutional Pathologies –

o institutional mission-drift
o institutional inconsistency
o institutional duplicity
o institutional exploitation
o institutional capture
(Kirkby, 2018)
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TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY

• Elements of good governance
• Interdependent with integrity

Transparency Accountability
“unfettered access by the public “obligation on the part of public Public sector
to timely and reliable officials to report on the usage perspective
but accountability
information on decisions and of public resources and exists in
performance in the public answerability for failing to meet corporate/ market
and non-profit
sector” stated performance objectives” governance as
well
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ACCOUNTABILITY SETTINGS & MECHANISMS

(Rubenstein, 2007)

Electoral Legal Market-based

Civil-society-
Administrative
based
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ACCOUNTABILITY DYAD (Zia, et al. 2010)

Explicit standards
ACCOUNTEE Implicit norms
ACCOUNTER

Those to whom
Those rendering
accounts gets
accounts
rendered

Evidence/Data
Behavior
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STANDARD ACCOUNTABILITY (Rubenstein, 2007)

Actor B
Actor A is accountable for its Accountability
Power-wielder
treatment of holder

IF

Actor A faces significant and predictable sanction for

failing to treat Actor B according to recognized
standards
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STANDARD ACCOUNTABILITY (Rubenstein, 2007)

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What’s the problem with standard accountability?

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SURROGATE ACCOUNTABILITY
• A third party sanctions a power-wielder on behalf of
accountability holders because the AH cannot sanction (or play
their role in helping to sanction) the power wielder
• Surrogate can be for sanction, information or standards
• But surrogates are independent and AH cannot sanction them
• VS Second-order accountability where AH can sanction the actor
who is sanctioning the PW (though not the PW directly)
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SURROGATE ACCOUNTABILITY - Sanction

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SURROGATE ACCOUNTABILITY - Standards

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SURROGATE ACCOUNTABILITY - Information

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NORMATIVE BENEFITS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

(Rubenstein, 2007)
1. Helps to constitute non-domination

2. Increases power-wielders’ rule-following

3. Promote accountability holders’ preferences

4. Promotes valuable substantive or procedural norms

5. Promotes civic virtues and self-development

6. Provides useful information

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KINDS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
(Rubenstein, 2007 citing Grant and Keohane, 2005)

DELEGATION
Upward Accountability

PARTICIPATION
Downward Accountability
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Dichotomous
Accountabilities
(Blind, 2011)