Table of Contents
Conceptual and Theoretical Issues1. Introduction: Democratic Accountability in Latin America, Scott Mainwaring2. Horizontal Accountability: The Legal Institutionalization of Mistrust, Guillermo O'Donnell3. Horizontal Accountability: Concepts and Conflicts, Charles D. KenneyLegislatures, Executives, and Oversight Agencies4. The Accountability Deficit in Latin America, Erika Moreno, Brian F. Crisp, and Matthew Soberg Shugart5. Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina, Scott Morgenstern and Luigi Manzetti6. The Role of Congress as an Agency of Horizontal Accountability: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience, Argelina Cheibub FigueiredoThe Judiciary, the Public Prosecution Office, and Rule of Law7. The New Brazilian Public Prosecution: An Agent of Accountability, Maria Tereza Sadek and Rosangela Batista Cavalcanti8. Horizontal Accountability and the Rule of Law in Central America, Michael Dodson and Donald W. Jackson9. Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Supreme Court: horizontal exchange and the rule of law in Mexico, Beatriz MagaloniSocietal Accountability10. Societal and Horizontal Controls: Two Cases of a Fruitful Relationship, Catalina Smulovitz and Enrique Peruzzotti