Demanding accountable government: Citizens, politicians, and the perils of representative democracy in Argentina

Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 229-249

  Peruzzotti, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

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1. The concept of horizontal accountability refers to the operation of an intrastate system of checks and balances to control or punish actions or omissions by agents or agencies of the state that might be considered unlawful. Vertical accountability refers mainly (although not exclusively) to elections as a mechanism of political control.