The important consideration for effectiveness is that networks that are established combine the requirements of accountability, and legitimacy of various responsibilities.
Should we cheer Congressional support for privately-managed schools that get public funds but are not subject to the same requirements of accountability and transparency as public schools?
While it might look like we're getting accountability from afar, Harper is giving us political tactics, attaching requirements of accountability and transparency to Crown corporations that don't need it, while letting his Defence Minister misplace $3 billion in a department that sorely does need it.
Staff selection has proved highly contentious in REF, with widespread accusations that in their zeal to second-guess REF panels' grades universities have ridden roughshod over Hefce's requirements of transparency, accountability, consistency and inclusiveness.
This way, the medical research community can adjust their long-term behaviour in line with the requirements of social accountability and, in doing so, once again prove to the public and taxpayers its right to professional autonomy and self-regulation.
In these cases, the requirement of effective public accountability means the ranchers ought to prevail, it being clear that the Beef Act does not establish an advertising scheme subject to effective democratic checks.
But you also have Democrats who are skeptical of accountability requirements, many of whom have strong ties to the teacher's unions.
With privacy constraints in place to prevent unauthorized access to electronic health records — a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 — patients could get electronic copies of their own medical records and have them sent directly to a doctor, hospital or other designated recipient.
The public sector banks in India have been notorious for their inefficiency, maddening paperwork requirements and an appalling lack of accountability because usually there is no simple way to complain and even when one does complain, the access is only to a local supervisor who has no incentives to follow-up on customer complaints.
Instead, a stronger, reauthorized No Child Left Behind Act must include higher standards of accountability and clear, consistent requirements for reporting graduation rates and student progress.
