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Or do we want to live in a system where people are held accountable for their decisions, where imprudent behavior is penalized and prudent behavior rewarded?
Reforms must aim at making grade school and high school teachers accountable.
That is the first step toward holding US leaders accountable under domestic and international law.
Macron wants to make the political system more open and accountable, with financing of political parties becoming more transparent.
Such a strategy will include continued experimentation and adjustment, particularly when it comes to developing effective institutions that can provide public goods in a transparent and accountable way.
Transparency is unambiguously good for companies and for governments; by and large they don’t welcome it, but it makes them more accountable to their constituents and to society.
Putting Democracy Above the Bottom LineBOSTON – This month, we will have a chance to chart a course toward a stronger, safer global society, where power belongs to the many, not to the few, and where those who have run roughshod over our environment, human rights, and public health will be held accountable.
If institutions are not fully accountable, it is useful to have an unaccountable countervailing institution to reveal their secrets.
WikiLeaks sees itself as part of the tradition in which the media hold governments accountable for abuse.
The rationale is clear: if these officials, institutions, and policies were held accountable, the reform agenda would necessarily shift from regulating greedy bankers and their bonuses to asking broader questions.
No one need know – and thus no one can be held accountable – when graduation rates rise but the hoped-for economic benefits fail to materialize.
With the support of my community, I founded the Center for Justice, Governance, and Environmental Action (CJGEA) to hold the state and corporations accountable for ensuring a clean and healthy environment.
Economists, especially those involved in policy debates, need to be held explicitly accountable for their professional behavior.
Data are also an important tool for health-care advocates and average citizens who want to track progress over time, hold leaders accountable, and demand the care they need and deserve.
So, too, is the process for holding a eurozone finance minister accountable and ensuring his or her democratic legitimacy.
But the notion that Africa cannot take responsibility for holding accountable Africans who have committed atrocities is patronizing, at best.
It has been suggested that Africa’s rulers are concerned less with holding accountable those who have committed international crimes than with protecting themselves from prosecution.
As Ellen Lutz and Caitlin Reiger have pointed out, “the waxing and waning of political fortunes still dominates the extent to which former leaders are held judicially accountable for their crimes at all.”
What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.
According to their manifesto, they “expect Navalny to defend the rule of law, support independent courts, and ensure that officials are really accountable before society.”
Trump is taking direct aim at an essential concept: that the president can be held accountable to the citizens.
Countries like Botswana that have accountable governments, respect for the rule of law, established property rights, and independent judiciaries fare far better than their counterparts.
To guard against abuse and capture, industrial policy needs be carried out in a transparent and accountable manner, and its processes must be open to new entrants as well as incumbents.
It is Russia’s role as a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council that has made it impossible to establish a tribunal to hold accountable those on all sides who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, or to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.
Our first efforts focused on developing the “software” of post-conflict development: basic education and health-care facilities, accountable economic and political governance, and the creation of new social safety nets.
In five years, every major institution could be held accountable by its own version of WikiLeaks – so that taxpayers, shareholders, members of university communities, and so on, can find out what the traditional gatekeepers prefer to hide.
One critical question remains: Who is accountable for the funds delivered to refugees?
When the Bank delivers funds to a government, it is clear who is accountable.
Is it possible to maintain a rigorously independent chairman when it comes to interest rates, and a tightly accountable chairman when he is making supervisory decisions?
Only by demonstrating professionalism in its work, and willingness to hold senior government figures accountable where appropriate, can the ICC engender broad and lasting support.
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