"Without the ability to exercise real accountability, real choice, this testing is nonsense".
It is true of course that this exercise provides accountability for public investment and requires evidence of the benefits.
The ruling was not about legalistic technicality trumping the moral righteousness of Balls's decision, but about the proper exercise of accountability.
Still, as an exercise in accountability, political journalists should ask themselves from time to time: Would I write this about a war, or a depression?
That was a service to the public, but the civilian panel did an enormous disservice by not connecting those dots and by walking away from any real exercise in accountability.
Maybe the board of elves should step up and exercise some accountability.
These markets can now exercise the accountability functions associated with citizenship: they can vote governments' economic policies in or out, they can force governments to take certain measures and not others' (Sassen 2003: 70; see generally Schrecker 2009).
Once the state has deliberately created space for power to be exercised without accountability those who occupy that space will protect it against enemies domestic and foreign.
It is concluded that both forms of disclosure offer little in the way of opportunity for facilitating action on the part of organizational stakeholders, and cannot therefore be viewed as exercises in accountability.
Reform will only come in small degrees, but it should emphasize that veto power can only be exercised with accountability, or limited in scope.
