Culturally appropriate Indigenous Accountability

Bibliographic Data

ID3756142
AuthorsT Rowse (0000-0003-3602-5966, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume43
Issue9
Pages1514-1532
Publication date2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640021955900
OpenAlexW1986933754
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited3

Since they renounced the policy goal of assimilation in the 1970s, Australian governments have encouraged indigenous Australians to form corporations. Such bodies receive public money to deliver services, and they have become the sinews of a mobilized indigenous constituency. By reviewing the research and recommendations of a recent Australian government report, this article addresses the controversy about the indigenous corporation's multiple accountability: to the taxpayer, their employees, and their clients. In addition, drawing on recent international theoretical debates about the rationales of liberal tolerance for cultural minorities, this article qualifies the widely held assumption that accountability in this instance must be culturally appropriate

Accountability · Corporation · Government (linguistics) · Indigenous · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Taxpayer · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration