Democratic Accountability in Latin America

Name: Democratic Accountability in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780199256389

ISBN-10: 0199256381

ISBN-13: 9780199256389

Edition: 2003

Authors: Scott Mainwaring, Christoper Welna

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This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America. In much of Latin America, disenchantment and cynicism have set in regarding the quality of elected governments raising the prospect of a new round of democratic erosion and breakdowns. One of the important emerging challenges for improving the quality of democracy resolves around how to build more effective mechanisms ofaccountability. A widespread perception prevails in much of the region that government officials are not sufficiently subject to routinized controls by oversight agencies. Corruption, lack of oversight, impunity of state…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Conceptual and Theoretical Issues



Introduction: Democratic Accountability in Latin America




Horizontal Accountability: The Legal Institutionalization of Mistrust




Horizontal Accountability: Concepts and Conflicts



Legislatures, Executives, and Oversight Agencies



The Accountability Deficit in Latin America




Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina




The Role of Congress as an Agency of Horizontal Accountability: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience



The Judiciary, the Public Prosecution Office, and Rule of Law



The New Brazilian Public Prosecution: An Agent of Accountability




Horizontal Accountability and the Rule of Law in Central America




Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Supreme Court: horizontal exchange and the rule of law in Mexico



Societal Accountability



Societal and Horizontal Controls: Two Cases of a Fruitful Relationship