This paper draws on recent research in Europe and England to discuss the politics of accountability. It is suggested that, as policies in education are increasingly focused on delivering technical-managerial accountability, that is accountability understood as evidenced in international, national, institutional and individual comparative measures of performance, so the shifting power relations of system redesign supported by data use are concealed and suppressed. System redesign is promoted by ‘networked’ governance and the de-centred state, in institutional ‘freedom’ from bureaucracy, in the de-professionalisation of public sector workers, in the proliferation of managers, in the redefinition of citizens as consumers. The implications of such reforms for politics are profound, as political legitimacy is a fundamental precondition for the sustainability of the welfare state and welfare state organizations are dependent on active political processes of producing legitimacy and political accountability.

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问责政治

本文借鉴了欧洲和英国最近的研究来讨论问责制政治。有人认为，随着教育政策越来越注重提供技术管理问责制，即国际、国家、机构和个人绩效比较措施所证明的问责制，因此数据使用支持的系统重新设计的权力关系转移被隐藏和压制。“网络化”治理和去中心化的国家、摆脱官僚主义的制度“自由”、公共部门工作人员的非专业化、管理人员的激增以及将公民重新定义为消费者，都促进了系统重新设计。这种改革对政治的影响是深远的，