The ambiguous virtues of accountability

Article Abstract:

Accountability implies an exchange of responsibilities and potential sanctions between rulers and citizens, made all the more complicated by the fact that a varied and competitive set of representatives typically interposes between the two. A key to modern representative political democracy is accountability but the task of assessing it must be carefully thought through.

United States, Evaluation, Democracy, Political systems

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Democracy in Europe and Europe's democratization

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The democratization of Europe took some time to consolidate, however in the mid-1970s with the regime changes in Portugal, Spain, and Greece it became uniformly democratic. The European Union (EU) is an extreme case of a consociational democracy that weighs intensities more, especially when those intensities are expressed in the form of national interests.

Europe, Strategy & planning, Planning, Political aspects, Company business planning, Democratization

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