The phrase "amount of accountability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level or degree of responsibility that someone has in a particular situation or context.
Example: "The amount of accountability expected from team leaders is crucial for the success of the project."
Alternatives: "level of accountability" or "degree of accountability".
It was to ensure a minimal amount of accountability so that the country's huge surveillance powers would not be turned upon the American people.
With brand names, there's at least a decent amount of accountability.
For $1 billion, the Global Fund should be able to buy at least a small amount of accountability in addition to providing uncritical praise.
"We aren't seeing a paradigm shift, but at least there's been a minimum amount of accountability," said Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, a political analyst at the Eurasia Group in Washington.
As former Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff put it, "You need to have a certain amount of accountability so government doesn't run roughshod [over people's right to privacy] and that's been a hard thing to architect".
The problem, of course, is that even a small amount of political accountability is replaced by elite management by "experts".
But Cameron adds some other good proposals that amount to forms of accountability based on the relatively successful introduction of school academies.
He brings a quiet professionalism with the appropriate amount of honesty and accountability when evaluating the performance of his players.
It makes me reflect that, as utterly different as the Eastern bloc of 1957 and America of 2011 are, bureaucracy is not a system special to any form of government, but rather a trait of human behaviour that no amount of democracy and accountability can bring to heel.
Just like Andrey Ternovskiy's creation, the site lets strangers find each other via webcam, only this time – and similar to vChatter, which also powers social network Bebo's own take on the idea – users have to log-in via Facebook, therefore insisting on a certain amount of real identity accountability.
"There is a total lack of accountability".
