That distance needs to be explained, and the loop closed for the sake of public accountability.
Its candidate, an energetic entrepreneur and community activist called Adolf D'Souza, campaigns for decentralisation, transparent online budgeting and public accountability.
Yet by and large, these leaders have escaped public accountability or even criticism over the past six years of global crisis.
So where does that leave the oil companies that are fighting to disrupt the very basis of corporate transparency and public accountability?
How easy would it be to expand the definition to include other groups on the fringes of society without primary legislation and public accountability?
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In place of the old board, according to a Wall Street Journal report, Mr Pitt is now expected to recommend a Public Accountability Board.
If that is to work (and there are big questions about whether it can), there has to be a proper sense of public accountability.
And if we are going to hand down death sentences, there ought to be some public accountability and some public discussion about the whole thing.
Held in Bhurban (Pakistan), it focused on governance and public accountability.
This has led to concerns that replacing the Primary Care Trusts with Commissioning Consortia of GPs will undermine the public accountability of the Health Service.
The formidable challenge now facing the IMF, shared as well by other such international entities, is to define and meet ever greater standards of public accountability and transparency.
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With no resident western journalists left on the island (a German correspondent was recently expelled) and little public accountability, Bahrain's courts and prisons have a pretty free hand.
Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed?
Given that the press is held in abysmally low regard by the American public, as delineated in survey upon survey, it would be hard to divert taxpayer money without demanding some public accountability.
It was landmarked and it marked a very, very aggressive and important step the federal government took in taking over, really, the levels of accountability or the degree of accountability, public accountability schools are responsible for.
As for public accountability, there is none.
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Such was the case of sending al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked detainees to Guantanamo and holding them under the international-law-of-war context similar to prisoners of war - though technically without the same rights, as they were unlawful enemy combatants, along with a lack of meaningful transparency that undermined public accountability.
Or that the private owners of other clubs would voluntarily start an ownership structure of public shareholder accountability.
Topics include public service accountability and policy on Syria and Iran.
The public protector has risen out of the bureaucratic morass to become a breath of fresh air for a South African public clamouring for more accountability from their public servants and leaders.
But from the point of view of the plaintiffs, asset-protection trusts frustrate the public policy of accountability enshrined in common law.
Much of America's drone operation is hidden from view, carried out by the CIA and thus away from public gaze and accountability.
With the public increasingly demanding accountability from the private sector, every employee needs to know how to speak for the company when necessary.
The agency has a longstanding practice of buying influence by doling out hundreds of millions of dollars each year to certain, favored nonprofit organizations money that, according to the inspector general and Government Accountability Office, is dispersed with no public notice, competition or accountability.
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Remember, the purpose of the shake-up is meant to be about raising the public profile of police accountability.
The move was part of a Bush Administration initiative to improve accountability and public disclosure and to empower patients to make more informed decisions about health care.
Plan to justify incentive awards Compensation Committees can expect that public shareholders will demand accountability on how performance will be measured in order to justify incentive awards.
Sir Alan Beith, the Lib Dem MP who chairs the committee, said the government's policy on quangos was rightly based around increasing the accountability of public functions to ministers.
The Conference agreed that the present libel laws were not the main deterrent to having more investigative reporting which was described as important to ensure accountability of public officials.
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