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What Can Democracies Learn From Dictatorships?

UCL Uncovering Politics

CHAPTER

The Importance of Electoral Accountability

There's sometimes a tendency in democracy certainly in the UK to think that because there's electoral accountability you don't need other forms of accountability as well. You know I'm curious what the UK elections look like in 16 months for that reason but it's clearly not enough, he says. The notion that one of the senators from Alabama has basically violated one of the regulations for how sitting US Congress people or US leaders can trade stocks is really damaging to a system based on the quality under the law according to Lord Tebbit.

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