" This involves unpacking the interaction between participation, transparency and accountability. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

1. Accountability Challenges: Disentangling State and Regime
2. Civil Society and Accountability Politics
3. How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital
4. Offsetting the <
"Iron Law of Oligarchy:>
" The Challenge of Internal Democracy
5. The Invisible Problem of the Secret Ballot in the Countryside: What Counts as Free and Fair?
6. Contrasting Theory and Practice: The World Bank and Social Capital in Rural Mexico
7. Decentralizing Decentralization: Mexico's Invisible Fourth Level of the State
8. Comparing Regional Rural Development Councils: Do "Invited Spaces" Empower?
9. Accessing Accountability: Individual vs Collective Voices
10. Mexico's Migrant Civil Society: Exit Followed by Voice
11. Mapping Accountability Pathways
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