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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Andreas Schedler; Larry Jay Diamond; Marc F Plattner |
ISBN: | 1555877737 9781555877736 1555877745 9781555877743 |
OCLC Number: | 39985562 |
Description: | x, 395 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Conceptualizing accountability / Andreas Schedler -- Horizontal accountability in new democracies / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Democracy and constitutionalism / Richard L. Sklar -- Limits of horizontal accountability / Philippe C. Schmitter -- Traditions of accountability / Marc F. Plattner -- Response to my commentators / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Brief history of electoral commissions / Robert A. Pastor -- Off the streets and into the courtrooms : resolving postelectoral conflicts in Mexico / Todd A. Eisenstadt -- Institutionalizing credible elections in Ghana / E. Gyimah-Boadi -- Third dimension of accountability : the international community in national elections / Robert A. Pastor -- Brief history of judicial review / Herman Schwartz -- Judicial independence and judicial reform in Latin America / Pilar Domingo -- Building judicial independence in common law Africa / Jennifer Widner -- Surprising success : the new Eastern European constitutional courts / Herman Schwartz -- Brief history of anticorruption agencies / Michael Johnston -- Corruption, democracy, and reform in Benin / John R. Heilbrunn -- Combating corruption in South Korea and Thailand / Jon S.T. Quah -- Global coalition against corruption : evaluating Transparency International / Fredrik Galtung and Jeremy Pope -- Brief history of central bank independence in developing countries / Sylvia Maxfield -- Misguided autonomy : central bank independence in the Russian tradition / Juliet Johnson -- Learning from failure : the international financial institutions as agencies of restraint in Africa / Paul Collier -- Restraining the state : conflicts and agents of accountability / Andreas Schedler. |
Responsibility: | edited by Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner. |
Abstract:
This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.
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