Subject: Political Science Book Title: Democratic Accountability in Latin America
Democratic Accountability in Latin America
Mainwaring, Scott
(Editor), Conley Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Welna, Christoper
(Editor), Associate Director of The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925637-2
doi:10.1093/0199256373.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925637-2
doi:10.1093/0199256373.001.0001
Abstract:
This book brings together studies on democratic accountability in Latin America by authors from different theoretical perspectives. It seeks to further understanding on the web of institutions that form the mechanisms of accountability, the interaction between these institutions, and interaction between electoral accountability, intrastate accountability, and societal oversight. The book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses conceptual and theoretical issues on accountability. Part II presents three chapters on legislatures, executives, and oversight agencies. Part III has three chapters on the judiciary and related mechanisms of accountability. Part IV deals with innovations in oversight of public officials.
Keywords: democratic accountability, Latin America, political accountability, electoral accountability, intrastate accountability, oversight
Keywords: democratic accountability, Latin America, political accountability, electoral accountability, intrastate accountability, oversight
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Democratic Accountability in Latin America
2. Horizontal Accountability: The Legal Institutionalization of Mistrust
3. Horizontal Accountability: Concepts and Conflicts
4. The Accountability Deficit in Latin America
5. Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina
6. The Role of Congress as an Agency of Horizontal Accountability: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience
7. The New Brazilian Public Prosecution: An Agent of Accountability
8. Horizontal Accountability and the Rule of Law in Central America
Chapter 9. Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Supreme Court: Horizontal Exchange and the Rule of Law in Mexico
10. Societal and Horizontal Controls: Two Cases of a Fruitful Relationship
Index
doi:10.1093/0199256373.001.0001
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