The ambiguous virtues of accountability
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Accountability implies an exchange of responsibilities and potential sanctions between rulers and citizens, made all the more complicated by the fact that a varied and competitive set of representatives typically interposes between the two. A key to modern representative political democracy is accountability but the task of assessing it must be carefully thought through.
Publication Name: Journal of Democracy
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 1045-5736
Year: 2004
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Democracy in Europe and Europe's democratization
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The democratization of Europe took some time to consolidate, however in the mid-1970s with the regime changes in Portugal, Spain, and Greece it became uniformly democratic. The European Union (EU) is an extreme case of a consociational democracy that weighs intensities more, especially when those intensities are expressed in the form of national interests.
Publication Name: Journal of Democracy
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 1045-5736
Year: 2003
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