Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009

This article studies horizontal accountability in the Dominican Republic. First it analyses the rules regulating the system of checks and balances. Although important, institutional rules cannot explain the variation in the levels of accountability across time found in the Dominican case. Therefore,...

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Autor principal: MARSTEINTREDET, Leiv; Universidad de Bergen
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2011
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accountability; budget; institutions; Dominican Republic; government; democracy
rendición de cuentas; presupuesto; instituciones; República Dominicana; gobierno; democracia
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7787
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article7787oai
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Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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topic accountability; budget; institutions; Dominican Republic; government; democracy
rendición de cuentas; presupuesto; instituciones; República Dominicana; gobierno; democracia
spellingShingle accountability; budget; institutions; Dominican Republic; government; democracy
rendición de cuentas; presupuesto; instituciones; República Dominicana; gobierno; democracia
MARSTEINTREDET, Leiv; Universidad de Bergen
Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
topic_facet accountability; budget; institutions; Dominican Republic; government; democracy
rendición de cuentas; presupuesto; instituciones; República Dominicana; gobierno; democracia
description This article studies horizontal accountability in the Dominican Republic. First it analyses the rules regulating the system of checks and balances. Although important, institutional rules cannot explain the variation in the levels of accountability across time found in the Dominican case. Therefore, the article focuses on the execution of national budgets and the financial situation of the accountability institutions. The article suggests using an index of budgetary disproportionality based on a comparison of the congressionally approved budget and the executed budget to measure the level of horizontal accountability. A multivariate time-series regression analysis shows that budgetary disproportionality increases with presidential dominance. The article concludes that for the period 1967-2009, it is presidential behaviour more than any other factor that has prevented an effective system of checks and balances. Therefore the case confirms O’Donnell’s hypothesis of Delegative Democracies.
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title Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
title_short Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
title_full Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
title_fullStr Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
title_full_unstemmed Horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. The case of the Dominican Republic, 1967-2009
title_sort horizontal accountability and presidential dominance: a difficult combination. the case of the dominican republic, 1967-2009
publisher Universidad de Salamanca
publishDate 2011
url http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7787
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