Accountability is the word everyone invokes and no one seems to define. Merriam-Webster sends you down a rabbit hole that lands on four R's: respondents, results, records, and rationale. Dubnick and Justice point out that accountability is offered as the cure for everything from injustice to incompetence, yet rarely measured in practice. At its core, accountability is a storytelling exercise that uses data to assign credit or blame. Controlling the narrative is most of the ga