Collaborative Research: The Architecture of Accountability in 21st Century Latin America

合作研究：21 世纪拉丁美洲的问责架构

• 批准号: 2314749
• 负责人: Nicholas Weber
• 金额: $ 18.67万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Architecture; Accountability; 21st

Some public officials in Latin America routinely act outside the law, violating constitutional rights, engaging in corruption, and ignoring judicial rulings. Such unlawful behavior undercuts the rule of law, weakens democracy, and inhibits investment and growth in the region. This project examines the “architecture of accountability” – the sets of institutions charged with holding public officials accountable to the law – in 18 Latin American countries since 2000. The research addresses three questions: (1) What accountability institutions have existed in these countries and how have they been designed and reformed? (2) What explains variation in the design and reform of these institutions? (3) What explains variation in how effectively Latin American government officials have been held accountable? We use quantitative and qualitative analytic methods to test hypotheses about how political incentives and interests affect the design and reform of these institutions, and how their design influences how well Latin American public officials have been held to account since the turn of the century. The researchers will design, build, and deploy an open-source tool that will systematically monitor the on-line sources on which the project draws and alert the project when those sources have undergone change.The project will significantly advance understanding of the functioning and dysfunction of Latin American states, and the weakness of the rule of law in the region. The research will produce a large dataset that will be widely disseminated. By broadening and democratizing access to data about critical political and legal institutions, the project empowers original, high-quality interdisciplinary and trans-American research. By demonstrating to what degree accountability institutions have contributed to government accountability in Latin America, and what institutional attributes affect their influence, the project informs institutional design, and should have a sustained and positive impact on government transparency and government accountability in Latin America. Finally, the monitoring tool that the project will develop promises to facilitate the work not only of this project, but of other data-collection projects and databases as well.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拉丁美洲的一些公职人员经常在法律之外行事，侵犯了宪法权利，从事腐败和无视司法规则。这种非法行为使法治规定，削弱了民主，并抑制了该地区的投资和增长。该项目考试“问责制架构” - 自2000年以来，在拉丁美洲国家的18个拉丁美洲国家中，负责对法律负责的机构集合。该研究解决了三个问题：（1）这些国家中存在哪些问责制机构，以及它们如何设计和改革？ （2）是什么解释了这些机构的设计和改革的变化？ （3）是什么解释了拉丁美洲政府官员被负责的有效性差异？我们使用定量和定性的分析方法来测试有关政治激励和利益如何影响这些机构的设计和改革的假设，以及它们的设计如何影响拉丁美洲公职人员以来的关注程度。研究人员将设计，构建和部署一种开源工具，该工具将系统地监视项目绘制的在线资源并在这些来源理解变化时提醒项目。该项目将大大提高对拉丁美洲国家的功能和功能障碍的理解，以及该地区法律规则的弱点。该研究将产生一个将广泛传播的大数据集。通过扩大和民主化有关关键政治和法律制度的数据，该项目赋予了原始，高质量的跨学科和跨美国研究的能力。通过证明责任机构在拉丁美洲的政府问责制以及哪些机构属性影响其影响力，项目信息机构设计，并应对拉丁美洲的政府透明度和政府责任产生持续和积极的影响。最后，该项目将开发承诺的监视工具不仅可以促进该项目的工作，而且还可以促进其他数据收集项目和数据库的工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估来获得的支持。