Enforcing the Rule of Law : Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies

List of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations xi Part One: Civil Society and the Control of Political Power 1 Social Accountability: An Introduction 3(31) Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz 2 The Effectiveness of Law: Civil Society and the Public Prosecution in Brazil 34(21) Rosangela Batista Calvancanti 3 Judicialization of Protest in Argentina: The Case of Corralito 55(20) Catalina Smulovitz 4 Multiple Activation as a Strategy of Citizen Accountability and the Role of the Investigating Legislative Commissions 75(40) Ana Tereza Lemos-Nelson and Jorge Zaverucha 5 Critical Junctures of Social Accountability: Lessons from Latin America 115(19) Nuria Cunill Grau 6 Violent Police, Passive Citizens: The Failure of Social Accountability in Chile 134(44) Claudio A. Fuentes 7 Social Accountability in Mexico: The Civic Alliance Experience 178(35) Alberto J. Olvera Rivera 8 Mobilization and Accountability: A Study of Social Control in the "Cabezas" Case in Argentina 213(36) Jacqueline Behrend Part Two: Watchdog Journalism and Social Accountability 9 Media Scandals and Social Accountability: Assessing the Role of the Senate Scandal in Argentina 249(23) Enrique Peruzzotti 10 Reading Scandals: Scandals, Media, and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina 272(35) Silvio R. Waisbord Part Three: Some Theoretical Issues 11 Accountability and Civil Society 307(16) Andrew Arato 12 Social Accountability in Latin America and Beyond 323(11) Adam Przeworski 13 Notes on Various Accountabilities and Their Interrelations 334(10) Guillermo O'Donnell 14 Concluding Remarks 344(11) Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz List of Contributors 355(4) Index 359