2004•American EthnologistOpen access

Accountable democracy: Citizens' impact on public decision making in postdictatorship chile

Julia Paley

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ABSTRACT 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 inBetween Facts and Norms. Accountable democracy has at its center the impact of public‐sphere opinion formation on decision making by officials in elected governments.

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Key concepts: Democracy, Normative, Deliberative democracy, Public sphere, Public administration, Political science, Public opinion, Sociology