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Accountable democracy: Citizens' impact on public decision making in postdictatorship chile
Author(s) -
Paley Julia
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2004.31.4.497
Subject(s) - democracy , normative , deliberative democracy , public sphere , public administration , political science , public opinion , sociology , ethnography , political economy , politics , law , anthropology
Using a Santiago, Chile, health group as an ethnographic case study, I propose “accountable democracy” as an alternative normative project to the theory of deliberative democracy outlined by Habermas in Between Facts and Norms . Accountable democracy has at its center the impact of public‐sphere opinion formation on decision making by officials in elected governments.