The Self-Restraining State : : Power and Accountability in New Democracies / / ed. by Andreas Schedler, Marc F. Plattner, Larry Diamond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Collier, Paul,; Diamond, Larry,; Domingo, Pilar,; Eisenstadt, Todd A.,; Galtung, Fredrik,; Gyimah-Boadi, E.,; Heilbrunn, John R.,; Johnson, Juliet,; Johnston, Michael,; Maxfield, Sylvia,; O’Donnell, Guillermo,; Pastor, Robert A.,; Plattner, Marc F.,; Pope, Jeremy,; Quah, Jon S.T.,; Schedler, Andreas,; Schmitter, Philippe C.,; Schwartz, Herman,; Sklar, Richard L.,; Widner, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Diamond, Larry,; Plattner, Marc F.,; Schedler, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 p.)

The authors reflect on how new democracies can be made not only accountable to the electorate, but also subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Conceptual and Normative Issues -- 2 Conceptualizing Accountability -- 3 Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies -- 4 Comments on O’Donnell -- Part 2 Electoral Administration -- 5 A Brief History of Electoral Commissions -- 6 Off the Streets and into the Courtrooms: Resolving Postelectoral Conflicts in Mexico -- 7 Institutionalizing Credible Elections in Ghana -- 8 The Third Dimension of Accountability: The International Community in National Elections -- Part 3 Judicial Systems -- 9 A Brief History of Judicial Review -- 10 Judicial Independence and Judicial Reform in Latin America -- 11 Building Judicial Independence in Common Law Africa -- 12 Surprising Success: The New Eastern European Constitutional Courts -- Part 4 Corruption Control -- 13 A Brief History of Anticorruption Agencies -- 14 Corruption, Democracy, and Reform in Benin -- 15 Combating Corruption in South Korea and Thailand -- 16 The Global Coalition Against Corruption: Evaluating Transparency International -- Part 5 Central Banks -- 17 A Brief History of Central Bank Independence in Developing Countries -- 18 Misguided Autonomy: Central Bank Independence in the Russian Transition -- 19 Learning from Failure: The International Financial Institutions as Agencies of Restraint in Africa -- Part 6 Conclusion -- 20 Restraining the State: Conflicts and Agents of Accountability -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book