The main stakeholders this work needs to include are the senior business managers and government representatives (accountability for SJ), over the life of the issue (SS) where deference is given to the least powerful stakeholders (SPP).
AMS fulfils all the democratic functions of an electoral system by providing choice, a representative outcome, accountability, and, where it is warranted and truly legitimate, single-party government.
Second, in contrast to other studies which emphasise the critical role of publicly available information about the misconduct of representatives in assuring electoral accountability for representative misconduct (Chang et al., 2010), our findings point to the fact that electoral accountability can fail even in situations where a lack of information is not the main problem.
"My complaint about use of private contractors is their ability to fly under the radar and avoid any accountability," Representative Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, said.
In using the term "civil society" to denote their purported following, nongovernmental organizations, as some see it, are assuming a mandate that has not been granted by any democratic or representative process of accountability.
But we share some values -- like representative democracy, public accountability, government transparency, and a love for this country.
Yet despite the challenges, we must be globally resolute in our commitment to accountable representative governments, with reinforcing systems of transparency and accountability.
Representative Steve Cohen's FISA Accountability Act, for instance, would require both Congress and the Supreme Court justices to appoint new judges to the court that approves NSA spying request (FISA), rather than give conservative Chief Justice John Roberts the authority to appoint them himself.
Using the uniquely advantageous case of the UK expenses scandal, we have provided new evidence as to why electoral accountability for representative misconduct may function imperfectly.
This illustrates a useful feature of the expenses scandal for empirically examining electoral accountability for representative misconduct: the fact that a large (though not overwhelming) proportion of sitting MPs was publicly exposed for the same types of misconduct in a short time window.
