| Description |
xv, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford studies in democratization
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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, Rosāngela 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. |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Latin America.
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Government liability -- Latin America.
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Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
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| Added Author |
Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-
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Welna, Christopher.
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| ISBN |
0199256381 (pbk.) |
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0199256373 (HBK.) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA364344 |
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UKM bA3Y6853 |
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