What is political accountability and what factors have contributed to its decline in recent years?
What will be an ideal response?
Political accountability is the belief that public leaders must be accountable to the public for their actions. As the media and politicians have transformed politics into public relations, more time and energy are spent on image considerations that in no way serve the public good, thus leading to the election of the wrong people for the wrong reasons while discouraging those who should run from doing so. This transformation impacts political accountability in the sense that if politics is reduced to image and we don’t know what our leaders are doing then that accountability, which the authors posit is the very hallmark of democracy, is weakened as is democracy itself.
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