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Democratic accountability in Latin America
- Title
- Democratic accountability in Latin America / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Christopher Welna.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 343 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in democratization
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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, 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-2893
- ISBN
- 0199256373 (HBK.)
- 0199256381 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 52992358
- Title
- Democratic accountability in Latin America / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Christopher Welna.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
- Series
- Oxford studies in democratization
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-Welna, Christopher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-2893