Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action

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The Six Initiatives

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

 

Michelangelo, 1475–1564

The last few chapters have helped us to understand the limitations in the internal, horizontal and external mechanisms of accountability within the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. These debilitating weaknesses stress the four foundations of accountability, rendering them unstable (Figure 8.1).

 

 

Figure 8.1 Key Weaknesses of Accountability Mechanisms

 

Are there common underlying ailments afflicting these mechanisms? If we could identify the common weaknesses, then perhaps a concentrated effort to overcome them may provide ...