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Citizens must demand accountability from their leaders.
The main way of ensuring public accountability is through select committees.
The new command structure will have a higher degree of accountability.

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accountability | Business English

accountability
noun[ U ]
uk /əˌkaʊntəˈbɪləti/us
a situation in which someone is responsible for things that happen and can give a satisfactory reason for them:
The organization suffers from a lack of accountability.
greater/increased/more accountabilityThe public has been demanding greater accountability from lawmakers.

Examples of accountability

accountability
Regularity means, in a strict sense, accountability by a symbolic rule or a recurrent pattern.
Demissie allowed his field commanders sufficient freedom of action while demanding full accountability.
The clear lines of electoral accountability created by parliamentary systems also greatly raised the stakes of visible opposition to a national program.
It is difficult indeed to document accountability for one's practice without an explanatory framework within which to evaluate practice.
Rampant corruption and lack of public accountability has caused deep popular distrust of the state.
Developments in cybernetics should be openly debated with accountability to the public, especially for investment of public funds.
This has to be done with discretion and appropriate sensitivity, but it is critical to programme success and accountability.
Relevant chapters include topics such as advances in quantitative test analysis, latent trait models, generalizability theory, qualitative approaches, washback, standards, accountability, and ethics.
Those least dissatisfied with institutional practices of horizontal accountability were found more often among the elderly or the poorly educated.
A first set of articles discusses the theoretical controversies surrounding the concept of democratic accountability, and in particular the distinction between different types of accountability.
Each component maintains a separate professional culture, assisted by their hyper-autonomy and lack of accountability.
Such issues, as equity, accountability and the ethics of who should be involved in the evaluation of policy are all considered.
Instead, administrative centralisation coupled with high market demand and a lack of public accountability, encouraged caciquismo and speculation by state officials.
Establishing mechanisms of redress, compensation and accountability has already generated considerable political heat.
However, it ran into problems of internal accountability, with statements and press releases reportedly being issued in the absence of internal agreement or consensus.
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Collocations withaccountability

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These are words often used in combination with accountability.

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absence of accountability
The absence of accountability, then, became the norm rather than exception.
accountability mechanism
For most of the twentieth century, professional accountability can be seen as the fallback accountabilitymechanism.
accountability review
Unsatisfactory responses will be taken up within individual regions throughout the accountability review process.
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