The essentials for accountability

Abstract

"Accountability" carries with it several significant and important components for its evolution, to mention a few we can point out transparency and access to information, with other factors such as citizen participation or sanctions for good management of resources. In this study we will explain how this process is handled in society and how it has evolved along with governance in our legal system, starting from two axes: one with criminal and  administrative sanction, the other being moral and symbolic, the latter becoming more important, because it is society itself, the one that finally through the vote, decides who stays in the position. On the other hand, emphasis is placed on the model used in Mexico: principalagent, in which society places its trust and authority so that the various state agencies monitor the activities of others. This text proposes an analysis of accountability from a functional institutional approach perspective, but with a holistic analysis, within which the sociopolitical and socio-cultural axes that are roughly exposed stand out.