Rozliczalność jako element jakości procesu demokratycznego w systemie instytucjonalnym III Rzeczypospolitej
Accountability as an Element of the Quality of the Democratic Process in the Political System of the Third Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: The term “accountability” refers to a manner of assuming responsibility, in particular a relevant verification of particular actions and processes located in time and assigned to a concrete subject. Usu allythe following two types of accountability are identifi ed: interinstitutional (horizontal) accountabilityand electoral (vertical) accountability. Accountability applies primarily to the executive branchof government, but it is included in the much wider range of the accountability of the particular institutionsof a political system. It constitutes an element of the quality of democracy. There have beenoscillations in the level of accountability in the political system of the Polish Third Republic. It waslowered in the years 2007 2015 when symbiosis occurred among the establishment, the state bureaucracy, the business community, and public opinion polling institutions

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