>As a rule, government is more transparent and accountable than even publicly traded corporations. FOIA requests, meetings, hearings, transcripts, budgets, expenditures, rosters, etc.

What might make governments even more accountable are the threats of loss of tax revenue (people and companies doing business elsewhere) and loss of campaign contributions. This is similar to how corporations are held accountable by shareholders (CEO compensation), employees (take their talents elsewhere) and customers