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To define the dilemma of accountability in modern government as a choice between independence and control is to pose the wrong question. Implicit in this statement is an assumption that established systems of accountability and control are fixed and immutable. Independence is equated, as it was by Dr James Killian in specifying the prerequisites for an ‘independent’ Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with exemption ‘from civil service, public bidding, and GAO auditing requirements’ and non-budgetary financing. He did not regard Presidential appointment of directors as in any way compromising the Corporation’s independence.1
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Notes
Peter F. Drucker, The Age of Discontinuity (Harper and Row, 1969) PP. 233–42.
E. L. Normanton, The Accountability and Audit of Governments (Manchester University Press, 1966) p. xv.
Lloyd D. Musolf (ed.), Communications Satellites in Political Orbit (Chandler Publishing Corp., 1968) p. 136.
See Lloyd D. Musolf, Mixed Enterprise (D. C. Heath and Co., 1972) PP: 54–8.
Herman Schwartz, ‘A Dilemma for Government-Appointed Directors,’ Harvard Law Review, Dec., 1965.
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Seidman, H. (1975). Government-sponsored Enterprise in the United States. In: Smith, B.L.R. (eds) The New Political Economy: The Public Use of the Private Sector. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02042-3_4
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