Although the party has since made political change harder by restricting the growth of civil society, those who think it is impossible could look to Taiwan, which went through something similar, albeit under the anti-Communist Kuomintang.Ultimately, this newspaper hopes, political reform would make the party answerable to the courts and, as the purest expression of this, free political prisoners.
Further, the quasi-official status of the participants, as representatives chosen by their parties, would make the parties' politicians answerable to points the representatives have made.
Moreover, most of the key figures in Mr. Gorbachev's Government were also members of the party's ruling circle, answerable to both masters.
Presidential candidates, Democrat or Republican, are answerable to their party's platform, as well as to their party's leaders, and all politicians must answer to the voters.
The answer is ANSWERABLE.
Courts should be removed from the jurisdiction of local officials but will still be answerable to the party at a higher level, the communique pledged; files should be kept to record when party officials get involved in legal matters, while judges should be chosen from the ranks of legal professionals.
He can hire staff across party lines and is not answerable to anyone but voters.
Actually, he has probably done a good thing by insulating himself from his party; otherwise he would be answerable for everything the government has done so far.
Younger parliamentarians have become so dissatisfied with Mr Ozawa that Yukio Hatoyama, the DPJ's secretary-general, now says that he, and not Mr Ozawa, is answerable to the party caucus.
Though Mr. Trimble is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and an adept politician who has survived internal leadership challenges, he is answerable to a party that is increasingly divided between those who still support the 1998 peace accord that established the power-sharing government and those who reject it.
Most crucial, an advisory board makes a chief executive answerable to a third party.
