ABSTRACT
Making the executive branch responsive to the preferences and demands of various interests when it has been extremely powerful constitutes a major task for liberalization. For purposes of this analysis, the task of altering executive power is considered to have two aspects. On the one hand, recruitment to the executive must be routinized. That is, access to executive power should be regularized. On the other hand, the executive must become responsive to the institutions which claim the right to oversee its routine activities. The various interests represented in other political institutions should be able to call the executive to account.
