Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovit2 (eds.), Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies

摘要

Social accountability refers to civil society and media initiatives to promote public accountability. As Peruzzotti and Smulovitz put it, these campaigns 'address some of the intrinsic limitations of elections as tools of political accountability, and they are crucial in activating the often reluctant network of intrastate agencies of control'.