"Institutions of Accountability," Hoover Digest, 1999, no.
Fragmented agricultural societies lack national institutions of accountability; many of Africa's people have therefore endured capricious rule with little opportunity for recourse.
In Russia, the institutions of accountability -- the courts, the legislature and a free press -- are either corrupt, desperately weak or overwhelmed by the power of the presidency.
The nonprofit organization, based in Berlin, said it was seeking to highlight the role corruption plays in social discontent, noting that the wave of global protests shows that citizens believe governments and public institutions lack accountability.
In this book, Tsai finds that even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
At the level of the public institutions, horizontal accountability provides the basis on which public officials and institutions can hold each other responsible for their actions.
He also believes that there should be institutions with accountability to engage in foreign agreements.
The World Resources Institute, which has been involved in meetings that led to the drafting of the SDGs, has outlined four major challenges that stand between the signed agreement and its realized success: government involvement, broad societal engagement, buy-in from financial institutions, and accountability.
The ultimate bottom line for pharmaceutical companies, which are commercial institutions with accountability of management to shareholders, is to create profit.
Its preconditions for collaborating with UNICEF or a national focal body seem to be the freedom to choose what it will support, transparency and non-duplication of efforts or institutions, and accountability.
