Independence and Accountability

Preliminary draft INDEPENDENCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF CENTRAL BANKS

ALJ Final Orders on Appeal: Balancing Independence with Accountability

Girth, minimum degree, independence, and broadcast independence

An independent broadcast on a connected graph $G$is a function $f:V(G)to mathbb{N}_0$such that, for every vertex $x$ of $G$, the value $f(x)$ is at most the eccentricity of $x$ in $G$,and $f(x)>0$ implies that $f(y)=0$ for every vertex $y$ of $G$ within distance at most $f(x)$ from $x$.The broadcast independence number $alpha_b(G)$ of $G$is the largest weight $sumlimits_{xin V(G)}f(x)$of an ind...

Interbranch Accountability in State Government and the Constitutional Requirement of Judicial Independence

When contemporary commentators decry what they describe as growing threats to “judicial independence,” they typically invoke “judicial independence” as a normative ideal—an institutional virtue. That virtue is the capacity of courts to protect individual rights, to police structural limits on governmental power, and to decide individual disputes based solely on the applicable law and the factua...

Laurence H Meyer : The politics of monetary policy - balancing independence and accountability

It is widely believed, at least among central bankers, that “independence” is a prerequisite for achieving the goals that traditionally have been assigned to central banks specifically for achieving price stability. “Independence” does not mean literally independence from government, because central banks here and abroad are almost always part of government. The relationship of central banks to...