The distinction between active and passive modes of responsibility entails another important aspect, namely time dimension, and under this aspect, we should distinguish between two temporal directions of responsibility: the retrospective and the prospective ones (Cane 2002).
His only gestures in the direction of fiscal responsibility were to propose reforming corporate tax, increasing some taxes on the very rich and extending a freeze on some categories of discretionary spending, all of them tiny parts of the overall picture.
Through interactive involvement, RRI initiatives propose to move agenda-setting processes in the direction of societal responsibility.
This relation has changed during the process of competitive tendering in the direction of more responsibility with the public authority reducing the economies of scale [1].
Last year, when the Bush administration rolled out its annual budget proposing more than $500 billion in Medicare cuts, many Republican leaders cheered the legislation as a necessary move in the direction of fiscal responsibility.
"The black church, or at least the faith-based community, has not embraced Black Lives Matter because it doesn't seem to have that central direction where people of responsibility can make the decisions and 99% can follow that," Boyd said.
Although more companies are moving in the direction of business social responsibility, many executives view this as a limited scope instead of an overarching prescription to do good.
So I think a sort of responsibility direction might be worth pursuing".
It is only through a player's sense of responsibility, direction and individual agency that the pictures on the screen come to assume real meaning.
