It is important that regulators are appointed by and answerable to an authority other than the government.
This possibility of contestation will make government agents wielding discretionary authority answerable to a public understanding of the goals or ends they are meant to serve and the means they are permitted to employ.
As in Central America, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Colombian armed forces will make them more powerful politically and less answerable to civilian authority.
Presumably, an independent regulator would be insulated from political pressure, whereas an accountable regulator would be answerable to political authorities.
Tottering on Whose Angkor Wat? Look, we listened Battle of the caves ReprintsHardy Pushtun tribesmen have never been smoothly answerable to a central authority.
When Bob has put together a completion schedule and time chart, everyone will go to work each contractor, employee, and satellite responsible to no single authority but answerable to everyone.
While Hashd al-Shabi has struck alliances with some Sunni tribes near Tikrit, it is distrusted by Sunni residents in Diyyala province, north of Baghdad, who claim its fighters are answerable to no state authority.
Their role in the Church is further complicated by the "personal prelature" status granted to them by John Paul II, which leaves them free of all local authority and answerable only to the Pope.
The mystery about what Mr. Davis was doing with this inventory of gadgets has touched directly on Pakistani resentments that members of the large American security presence here roam the country freely and are not answerable to the Pakistani authorities.
Here in the Knin region, the official said, police forces answerable to the Serbian authorities blow up Croatian homes and Roman Catholic churches in retaliation for similar bombings of Serbian homes and Eastern Orthodox churches just across the front in Croatia.
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