Democratic accountability in Latin America
著者
書誌事項
Democratic accountability in Latin America
(Oxford studies in democratization / series editor, Laurence Whitehead)
Oxford University Press, 2003
- : hc
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全13件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 of accountability. 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 actors, and improper use of public resources are major problems in most countries of the region. Dealing with these issues is paramount to restoring and deepening democratic legitimacy. The fundamental question in this volume is how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously promoting governmental effectiveness.
These issues have acquired urgency in contemporary Latin America because of heightened public concern about corruption and improper governmental actions on the one hand, yet on the other, uncertainty about the potential trade off between tightened accountability of officials and effective policy results. The volume enhances understanding of three key issues. First, it enriches understanding of the state of non-electoral forms of democratic accountability in contemporary Latin America. What are some of the major shortcoming in democratic accountability? How can they be addressed? What are some major innovations in the efforts to enhance democratic accountability? A second contribution of the volume is conceptual. Accountability is a key concept in the social sciences, yet its meaning varies widely form one author to the next. The authors in this volume, especially in the first four chapters, explicitly debate how bet to define and delimit the concept. Finally this volume also furthers understanding of the interactions between various mechanism and institutions of accountability.
Many of the authors address how electoral accountability (the accountability of elected officials to the voters) interact with the forms of accountability in which state agencies oversee and sanction public officials. This volume provides extensive treatment of this important but hitherto under-explored interaction.
目次
- CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES
- 1. Introduction: Democratic Accountability in Latin America
- 2. Horizontal Accountability: The Legal Institutionalization of Mistrust
- 3. Horizontal Accountability: Concepts and Conflicts
- LEGISLATURES, EXECUTIVES, AND OVERSIGHT AGENCIES
- 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
- THE JUDICIARY, THE PUBLIC PROSECUTION OFFICE, AND RULE OF LAW
- 7. The New Brazilian Public Prosecution: An Agent of Accountability
- 8. Horizontal Accountability and the Rule of Law in Central America
- 9. Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Supreme Court: horizontal exchange and the rule of law in Mexico
- SOCIETAL ACCOUNTABILITY
- 10. Societal and Horizontal Controls: Two Cases of a Fruitful Relationship
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