As they believed Argentine policymakers felt unaccountable to their constituents, policymakers were perceived to make public policies with 'no rational support or with no relation to the public interest': There is one very important barrier (to using research results to inform policymaking), and that is that in Argentina the political system is a weak democracy.
Hubristically, as really the relationship was planned to provide a winter of safe sex, soon after their relationship began: "I this day began to feel an unaccountable alarm of unexpected evil: a little heat in the members of my body sacred to Cupid, very like a symptom of that distemper with which Venus, when cross, takes it into her head to plague her votaries".
Personally, I feel pretty unaccountable for anything I do with sharks, but same difference.
Still, I felt an unaccountable foreboding.
It is worth spoiling one of the story's surprises to point out how well Mr. Henkin presents it: Julian, upon learning that Mia cheated on him, feels "an unaccountable power, thinking he knew something Mia didn't, when the truth was the opposite: what he knew now she had known all along".
"The kind of businesses that end up with those bad effects are businesses that feel they are completely unaccountable, they don't face proper competition, they try and advance their agendas not through designing better products and services for people but by using lobbying and lawyers and access to the levers of power.
But Peter Scharf, a renowned New Orleans criminologist and author of The Badge and the Bullet: Police Use of Deadly Force, is dismissive of the contention that officers felt they were unaccountable because of endemic corruption in the police.
McCain demands that this task force disappear, because he feels it is "unaccountable" and is "targeted" at for-profits.
I know how powerless local people feel in the face of smooth-talking, unaccountable bureaucrats.
In a country so long ruled by the arbitrary whims of the unaccountable, they felt something had changed.
