Enforcing the rule of law : social accountability in the new Latin American democracies /
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| Imprint: | Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006. |
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| Description: | xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pitt Latin American series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5881611 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Social accountability : an introduction / Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz
- 2. The effectiveness of law : civil society and the public prosecution in Brazil / Rosangela Batista Calvancanti
- 3. Judicialization of protest in Argentina : the case of Corralito / Catalina Smulovitz
- 4. Multiple activation as a strategy of citizen accountability and the role of the investigating legislative commissions / Ana Tereza Lemos-Nelson and Jorge Zaverucha
- 5. Critical junctures of social accountability : lessons from Latin America / Nuria Cunill Grau
- 6. Violent police, passive citizens : the failure of social accountability in Chile / Claudio A. Fuentes
- 7. Social accountability in Mexico : the civic alliance experience / Alberto J. Olvera Rivera
- 8. Mobilization and accountability : a study of social control in the "Cabezas" case in Argentina / Jacqueline Behrend
- 9. Media scandals and social accountability : assessing the role of the senate scandal in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti
- 10. Reading scandals : scandals, media, and citizenship in contemporary Argentina / Silvio R. Waisbord
- 11. Accountability and civil society / Andrew Arato
- 12. Social accountability in Latin America and beyond / Adam Przeworski
- 13. Notes on various accountabilities and their interrelations / Guillermo O'Donnell
- 14. Concluding remarks / Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz.
