Accountability horizontal e novas poliarquias

As poliarquias desenvolvidas do Ocidente condensam influências de três tradições políticas distintas: a liberal, a republicana e a democrática. As tradições liberal e republicana são as responsáveis pela "accountability horizontal", um traço crucial dessas poliarquias que está ausente das novas democracias. Discute-se o significado diso, e como a accountability horizontal poderia ser criada nestas últimas

Accountability horizontal.

Texto presentado en la conferencia "Institutionalizing Horizontal Accountability", Viena, junio de 1997, coorganizada por el Institute for Advanced Studies de Viena y el International Forum for Democratic Studies

Teoria democrática e política comparada

The present article is a revision of democratic theory from the perspective of its inadequacies to account for the new - and not so new -, democracies located outside the Northwestern quadrant of the world. It begins by examining various definitions of democracy, especially those that claiming to be Schumpeterian, are deemed to be minimalist, or processualist; and proposes a realistic and restricted, but not minimalist definition of a democratic regime. The connections of this topic with several others are then explored, including political, social, and welfare rights; the state, mainly in its legal dimension; and some features of the overall social context. The main grounding factor that results from these explorations is the conception of agency, as it is expressed in the legal system of existing democracies, although widely variable across cases