Democratic accountability in Latin America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in democratization.
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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.