Accountability horizontal e novas poliarquias

Abstract

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.The poliarchies developed in the western world have been shaped by three different political traditions: the liberal, the republican and the democratic. The liberal and republican traditions foster horizontal accountability, a crucial feature of those poliarchies wich is not to be found in the new democracies. After discussing what this absence implies ways of generating horizontal accountability in the latter are suggested.