Controlling the Police in Buenos Aires
A Case Study of Horizontal and Social Accountability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3816652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Stanley (Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-91 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00125.x |
| OpenAlex | W1574862429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article analyses the interaction between various forms of accountability on the basis of a case study of responses to the Federal Police of Argentina's practice of framing innocent victims. The failure of classic agencies of balance to establish accountability was compensated in this case by the creation of an ad hoc agency of oversight, an investigative commission established by the Attorney General, that interacted with social agents of accountability. The analysis points to the ambivalent role of the media in both supporting and exposing illegal police practices and shows that the cooperation between the commission and social actors was crucial to its success
Accountability · Agency (philosophy · Ambivalence · Commission · Framing (construction · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Presidents and Assemblies
The Self-Restraining State
Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America
Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies
Building democratic institutions
Frame analysis
Policing the Crisis
Elections and Representation
Policing the Crisis
Understanding Deviance
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems
Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies
Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies
Societal Accountability in Latin America
Opening the Window for Reform
Mugging as a Moral Panic
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |