TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schedler,Andreas
AU  - Diamond,Larry
AU  - Plattner,Marc F
TI  - Self-restraining state : power and accountability in new democracies 
SN  - 9781555877743
U1  - 352.35 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Responsibility
KW  - Separation of powers
KW  - Democracy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-379) and index; 1; Introduction; Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Andreas Schedler --; Pt. 1; Conceptual and Normative Issues; 2; Conceptualizing Accountability; Andreas Schedler; 3; Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies; Guillermo O'Donnell; 4; Comments on O'Donnell: Democracy and Constitutionalism; Richard L. Sklar; Comments on O'Donnell: The Limits of Horizontal Accountability; Philippe C. Schmitter; Comments on O'Donnell: Traditions of Accountability; Marc F. Plattner; Comments on O'Donnell: A Response to My Commentators; Guillermo O'Donnell --; Pt. 2; Electoral Administration; 5; A Brief History of Electoral Commissions; Robert A. Pastor; 6; Off the Streets and into the Courtrooms: Resolving Postelectoral Conflicts in Mexico; Todd A. Eisenstadt; 7; Institutionalizing Credible Elections in Ghana; E. Gyimah-Boadi; 8; The Third Dimension of Accountability: The International Community in National Elections; Robert A. Pastor --; Pt. 3; Judicial Systems; 9; A Brief History of Judicial Review; Herman Schwartz; 10; Judicial Independence and Judicial Reform in Latin America; Pilar Domingo; 11; Building Judicial Independence in Common Law Africa; Jennifer Widner; 12; Surprising Success: The New Eastern European Constitutional Courts; Herman Schwartz --; Pt. 4; Corruption Control; 13; A Brief History of Anticorruption Agencies; Michael Johnston; 14; Corruption, Democracy, and Reform in Benin; John R. Heilbrunn; 15; Combating Corruption in South Korea and Thailand; Jon S. T. Quah; 16; The Global Coalition Against Corruption: Evaluating Transparency International; Fredrik Galtung and Jeremy Pope --; Pt. 5; Central Banks; 17; A Brief History of Central Bank Independence in Developing Countries; Sylvia Maxfield; 18; Misguided Autonomy: Central Bank Independence in the Russian Transition; Juliet Johnson; 19; Learning from Failure: The International Financial Institutions as Agencies of Restraint in Africa; Paul Collier --; Pt. 6; Conclusion; 20; Restraining the State: Conflicts and Agents of Accountability; Andreas Schedler
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