TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collier,Paul
AU  - Diamond,Larry
AU  - Domingo,Pilar
AU  - Eisenstadt,Todd A.
AU  - Galtung,Fredrik
AU  - Gyimah-Boadi,E.
AU  - Heilbrunn,John R.
AU  - Johnson,Juliet
AU  - Johnston,Michael
AU  - Maxfield,Sylvia
AU  - O’Donnell,Guillermo
AU  - Pastor,Robert A.
AU  - Plattner,Marc F.
AU  - Pope,Jeremy
AU  - Quah,Jon S.T.
AU  - Schedler,Andreas
AU  - Schmitter,Philippe C.
AU  - Schwartz,Herman
AU  - Sklar,Richard L.
AU  - Widner,Jennifer
TI  - The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies 
SN  - 9781685854133
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685854133
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685854133
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685854133/original
ER  -