ABSTRACT
So far we have rightly focused on electoral and interinstitutional accountability. Our primary goal has been to identify the most important processes characterizing both types of accountability and suggesting the consequences and the impact on the functioning of (especially contemporary) democracies. At this point, it seems to us possible and useful to extend the analysis of interinstitutional accountability to the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the military. We also believe that it is important to focus on the European Union to discuss its alleged democratic deficit in the light of existence or not and the quality of accountability. By so doing, our aim is to offer more than a glimpse of what one should appropriately call “systemic accountability”.
