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vertical accountability: a standalone construct

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Comparative politics

the ability of citizens, acting through elections and political parties, to constrain and sanction government, measured as one of V-Dem's accountability indices.

In comparative politics, vertical accountability refers to the ability of citizens, acting through elections and political parties, to constrain and sanction government, measured as one of V-Dem's accountability indices. This meaning comes from Lührmann (2020) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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diagonal accountability1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct accountability2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs government2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Lührmann, A., Marquardt, K. L., & Mechkova, V. (2020). Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability. American Political Science Review, 114(3), 811-820. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055420000222

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