ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the core concepts, explains the major theories and discusses the research methods used in the study. It is organized into five major sections. The first embarks upon the conceptual discourse on accountability, elaborating the concept, dimensions, typology and so on based on the available literature. The second section delineates and rationalizes the use of a culturalinstitutional approach as a macro-analytical framework and its implications for the study. The third section explains the logic of adopting comparative analysis of a few cases. The fourth section reports the logic and method of case selection. The final section discusses about the data collection method of the study in a systematic manner.
