As an electoral system, it offers ideological clarity and accountability, but it is not very representative, giving nothing to losers even with substantial support.
It allows for ideological clarity, and thus accountability.
In contrast, the AV system is closer to the consensual, corporatist worldview cherished on much of the European continent, in which ideological clarity (and thus accountability) is sacrificed on the altar of majority support.
It opened up the possibility for the Court -- a panel of nine, unelected, life-tenured judges -- to effectively hijack the democratic process, allowing them to pursue their own ideological agenda without any accountability.
Among the questions of organisational structure, operating costs and logistics, ideological aspirations of transparency and accountability this raises, one overarching question remains: what is the true mandate of these 40 officers, and how can South Africa be sure that they don't operate as the Occult Unit did in the 90s when its head is Lamprecht and Jonker is still involved?
Among the questions of organizational structure, operating costs, and logistics, ideological aspirations of transparency and accountability this raises, one overarching question remains: What is the true mandate of these 40 officers, and how can South Africa be sure that they don't operate as the Occult Unit did in the 90s when its head is Lamprecht and Jonker is still involved?
"The problems in Tuz are a mix of political, ideological, religious, and general lack of accountability," said Barhan Ghazi Ahmed, a local Kurdish doctor.
This is an ideological attack on teachers and on local and parental accountability – an attack which was nowhere in their manifesto at the last general election.
