Governments’ Accountability Discourse in the Administrative System Using Critical Discourse Analysis

The philosophy of accountability and its implementation to address the problems of the bureaucratic system guarantee the health of the governments’ performance in the countries. This paper is the qualitative analysis of the views of the tenth and eleventh governments about administrative system issues to explore accountability of governments. Method research is based on the Vandyke and Fairclough's model considering the political, economic, and cultural conditions and the ruling ideological forces on the community to distinguish positions governments for the administrative system performance and their reactions to the results obtained. The Statistical population is the president's comments in two different presidencies which are published in the mass-circulation newspaper. Five texts were selected based on purposeful method of sampling. The results indicate that the tenth government discourse; indigenous development patterns; administrative reductions; government officials and agricultural development; the eleventh government's discourse is proper framing, accountability and transparency, legalism and moderation.