Moira B. MacKinnon, "Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies: Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society "
English | ISBN: 0415824338 | 2013 | 330 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0415824338 | 2013 | 330 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies. In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Both questions refer to the key dimensions of democracy analyzed in this book: representativeness and effectiveness, respectively. While they have been developed separately in scholarly work on institutions and regimes, there is little work considering them simultaneously, and on their interaction. Using quantitative and/or qualitative methods, contributions from top scholars in the field of legislatures, the judiciary and civil society examine these two concepts and their relationships in four Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.
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