Democratic accountability in Latin America

Democratic accountability in Latin America / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Christopher Welna.

This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America: how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously promoting governmental effectiveness.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-, Welna, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
Series:Oxford studies in democratization.
Subjects:
Since 1980
Democracy > Latin America.
Government liability > Latin America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Democracy
Government liability
Politics and government
Democratisering.
Verantwoordingsplicht.
Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
Latin America
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES
  • Introduction: Democratic accountability in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring
  • Horizontal accountability: the legal institutionalization of mistrust / Guillermo O'Donnell
  • Horizontal accountability: concepts and conflicts / Charles D. Kenney
  • PART II. LEGISLATURES, EXECUTIVES, AND OVERSIGHT AGENCIES
  • Accountability deficit in Latin America / Erika Moreno, Brian F. Crisp, Matthew Soberg Shugart
  • Legislative oversight: interests and institutions in the United States and Argentina / Scott Morgenstern, Luigi Manzetti
  • Role of congress as an agency of horizontal accountability: lessons from the Brazilian experience / Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo
  • PART III. THE JUDICIARY, THE PUBLIC PROSECUTION OFFICE, AND RULE OF LAW
  • New Brazilian public prosecution: an agent of accountability / Maria Tereza Sadek, Rosângela Batista Cavalcanti
  • Horizontal accountability and the rule of law in Central America / Michael Dodson, Donald W. Jackson
  • Authoritarianism, democracy and the supreme court: horizontal exchange and the rule of law in Mexico / Beatriz Magaloni
  • PART IV. SOCIETAL ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Societal and horizontal controls: two cases of a fruitful relationship / Catalina Smulovitz, Enrique Peruzzotti.

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