Responsibility and Efficiency Versus Subordination and Accountability

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58894/EJPP.2023.1.474
administration responsibility efficiency subordination accountability

Abstract

This report is focused on the essential oppositions of four principles that administration is required to follow – responsibility, efficiency, subordination, accountability; and more specifically – on the competition between them, as well as on the desired and sought-after synthesis between them through a systemic approach. A normative method, a method of judicial interpretation and a doctrinal method of research are applied. The hypothesis in this report is that there is a constant and dynamic competition between the four principles researched, especially in the context of the strong change of the social and economic environment. The assumption is that responsibility and efficiency will increasingly dominate formal subordination and accountability. The verification of this assumption is carried out in a logical way. The result of the study can be traced through the cross-interaction of the principles of responsibility, efficiency, subordination and accountability. The conclusions are mostly related to practical proposals in relation to future legislation and a standardized simplified approach to administration accountability.