Accountability
Two pillars of accountability are answerability and enforcement. Answerability requires public officials to provide information about their actions and justify them to the public. This requires both accessibility and transparency. Some public officials tend to be inaccessible. Very few ever state their values in writing. If they are not both accessible and transparent, then they do not wish to be answerable. Enforcement implies that an institution responsible for accountability can sanction the offending party or individual. Often this is absent as...
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