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Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies

Issue Date July 1998
Volume 9
Issue 3
Page Numbers 112-26
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About the Author

Guillermo O’Donnell is professor emeritus of political science and senior fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame and professor of political science at the University of San Martín, Argentina. In 2006, he was the first-ever recipient of the International Political Science Association’s Mattei Dogan Prize for lifetime achievement.

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