Social Accountability:

Peruzzotti, Enrique; Smulovitz, Catalina

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“…However, as O'Donnell (1993O'Donnell ( , 1999 and others have noted, state institutions for democratic debate and accountability in Latin America are weak and often inaccessible to the most marginalized citizens. In this context public protests become an important arena for political debate and accountability (Peruzzotti and Smulovitz 2006). When police repress protests, the manner in which state actors frame wrongdoing and the corresponding remedies can establish the limits of acceptable democratic protest and police response (Bonner 2014) as well as the scope of political participation.…”

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“…In this way state discourses provide a form of accountability by identifying if police action was wrongdoing or not (or if someone else is responsible for wrongdoing), what actions are considered wrongdoing, and what remedies (punishment or institutional state responses) are required (Bonner 2014;Peruzzotti and Smulovitz 2006). Thus state discourses frame what those with power perceive as the contours of acceptable and unacceptable democratic practice.…”

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“…Thus state discourses frame what those with power perceive as the contours of acceptable and unacceptable democratic practice. These discourses are especially important when the law is ambiguous; when applied to actions that are considered within the realm of state discretion; or when state institutions of accountability (such as the judiciary) do not function the way they were designed (Bonner 2014;Peruzzotti and Smulovitz 2006).…”

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Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina

Taylor

Bonner

2017

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Since the 1980s, liberalized and newly stable markets have helped usher in an unprecedented mining boom across the Latin American region. However, despite the fact that this boom contributes to notable economic growth, protests in opposition to the expansion and practices of mining companies have also grown, often with violent results. How protests are policed matters, but more important for democracy is how state actors respond when violence is employed. We examine two instances of police repression of mining protests: one in Cajamarca, Peru, and the other in Catamarca, Argentina. We argue that, despite significant differences in context, there are important similarities in state discourse between countries. In particular, a vocabulary of protester wrongdoing and calls for a remedy of "dialogue" are employed in both cases as a way to facilitate the continuation and expansion of both mining and the repression of protests.Desde la década del 1980, los mercados liberalizados y estables han ayudado a presentar un boom sin precedentes a través de América Latina. Sin embargo, a pesar de haber contribuido a un crecimiento económico muy importante, las protestas contra la expansión y las prácticas de algunas empresas mineras también han crecido, a veces con los resultados violentos. La gestión de las protestas por parte de la policía es importante, pero más importante para la democracia son las reacciones del Estado cuando ocurre un incidente violento. Nosotros examinamos dos incidentes de la represión policial de una protesta minera: uno en Cajamarca, Perú, y otro en Catamarca, Argentina. Planteamos que, a pesar de las diferencias significativas en el contexto local, hay algunas similitudes importantes con el discurso del estado en los dos países. Particularmente, un vocabulario de culpa por parte de los manifestantes y algunas recomendaciones para un remedio de diálogo son usados en los dos casos en una manera que facilita la continuación y la expansión del sector minero y también la represión de las protestas.

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Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina

Taylor

Bonner

2017

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…Through such mechanisms, social movements can carry out campaigns, build public opinion and put pressure on elected governments to face the issue and to duly respond to the citizens' demands. 'Societal accountability' is another form of vertical accountability; it is non-electoral yet vertical, involving citizen associations, social movements and the media with diverse strategies: (1) to monitor government functioning and actions of public officials; (2) to expose wrongdoings of the government; and (3) to activate horizontal accountability agencies (Peruzzotti and Smulovitz 2006;Smulovitz and Peruzzotti 2000). Peruzzotti and Smulovitz (2006) argue that societal accountability is 'activated on demand', applying both institutional tools (such as legal action) as well as non-institutional tools (such as social mobilisation, media exposure) to achieve its objectives.…”

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The Right to Information and Societal Accountability: The Case of the Delhi PDS Campaign

Pande¹

2007

IDS Bulletin

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“…Accountability has been described as operating horizontally, vertically and diagonally (Fox 2015;Peruzzotti and Smulovitz 2006). In pluralist democracies, horizontal accountability denotes the internal checks and balances between government institutions.…”

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Emerging environmental Multi-Level Governance in China? Environmental protests, public participation and local institution-building

Hensengerth

2018

Public Policy and Administration

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Chinese state reforms have resulted in a horizontal and vertical diffusion of actors in policymaking and policy implementation, leading to the creation of new collaborative institutions between government and non-government actors. At the non-governmental level, this has inter alia enabled the development of non-governmental organizations and the passage of a raft of legislation for public participation and access to information. However, the political and legal constraints imposed by the authoritarian system have meant that private citizens still find it hard to make their voice heard. Public participation legislation has suffered from an implementation gap, leading to the proliferation of environmental protests across China. For private citizens, therefore, protest outside of the formal-legal channels is a key tool to influence the policy process and demand public participation and better government accountability. There are indications that protests may result in the improvement and creation of local institutions that facilitate public participation, which in turn help to foster a new model of governance that contains features of multilevel governance.

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Social Accountability:

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Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina

Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina

The Right to Information and Societal Accountability: The Case of the Delhi PDS Campaign

Emerging environmental Multi-Level Governance in China? Environmental protests, public participation and local institution-building

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