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The public and the media could use the oath as a tool for assessing – and holding accountable – would-be leaders.
States, too, should be held accountable for their deeds – hence, in 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
As Francis Fukuyama has pointed out, the development of a capable state that is accountable and ruled by law is one of the crowning achievements of human civilization.
This means that he will be accountable to and dependent on those who raised him to power, not in a symbolic sense, but in the quite real sense of fulfilling promises and facing sanctions if he does not.
Politicians who come to power by winning a free and fair election are accountable primarily to voters.
Today, we believe that individuals, corporations, and institutions should be held accountable for their actions.
Those who contributed to maintaining Apartheid--and especially those who did not adhere to the sanctions after the UN approved them--should be held accountable.
Moreover, governments worldwide must hold coal and other fossil-fuel producers accountable for the damage their products have caused, including through a levy on fossil-fuel extraction to fund the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Common-sense strategies – such as improving coordination among the plethora of ministries and departments that comprise the bureaucracy, and establishing accountable and empowered agencies to deliver results in high-priority areas – could go a long way toward meeting this demand.
Indeed, a major problem with the current state of affairs is the weakness of EU institutions that are in charge of advancing the common interest and that are accountable to Europeans as a whole.
Common European direction cannot emerge from the calculus of national interests by governments and parliaments that are accountable only to national voters.
Consider the case of Mexico, where a proposal to raise revenue by taxing food and medicines consumed by the poor was, unsurprisingly, rejected by a democratically accountable legislature.
With the ICTY’s closure just one year away, there is a risk that Mladic will never be held accountable.
By good politics, I mean the internationalism, freedom of expression, and accountable governance that prevailed during the post-war era of prosperity.
Untethered as it is from national politics, it is accountable to no one.
When disasters hit (such as this year's droughts or floods), politicians cannot be held accountable for mistakes made over the course of many decades.
To be sure, central bankers should be democratically accountable for their actions.
Fed officials understand that their institution can remain independent only if it is accountable for its actions in the court of public opinion.
A eurozone institution, democratically accountable, would have to be charged with this.
But narrowing the global governance deficit requires closer cooperation, and a willingness to invest in civil-society organizations that hold governments accountable.
For this reason, perpetrators of serious human-rights violations on all sides should be held accountable, a demand that has been pointedly ignored since 2001.
But we also need public policy to be responsive and accountable to the preferences of the electorate.
Just as sex criminals – and the leaders who directed the use of rape and sexual abuse as a military strategy – were tried and sentenced after the wars in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, so Americans must hold accountable those who committed, or authorized, sex crimes in US-operated prisons.
Whether people like Sarkozy or not, the fact is that, during Hollande’s tenure, France’s social, economic, and security situation has deteriorated – and many are holding Hollande directly accountable.
Every society has its bad actors, and it needs an established (and accountable) authority to deal with them.
Having publicly committed to the deal, each country is honor-bound to pursue its particular obligations in good faith, or it will be held accountable in the court of public opinion.
The earthquake, together with the media transparency that accompanied it, has made the bureaucrats more accountable.
Making such data open and accessible should be viewed as a basic condition of ensuring people’s ability to hold governments accountable and thus participate in decisions that affect their lives.
But the UN’s Member States must be accountable as well.
But the demonstrations were also motivated by a larger aspiration, one that is more difficult to achieve: that the day-to-day workings of government become more accountable, more tied to the citizens whom government is meant to serve.
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