Courts in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Helmke, Gretchen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation, the contributors push forward ongoing debates about what motivates judges; whether institutions, partisan politics and public support shape inter-branch relations; and the importance of judicial attitudes and legal culture. The authors deploy a range of methods, including qualitative case studies, paired country comparisons, statistical analysis and game theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139036061
• Artikelnr.: 52864015

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: courts in Latin America Gretchen Helmke and Julio
Ríos-Figueroa; 1. Institutions for constitutional justice in Latin America
Julio Ríos-Figueroa; 2. Enforcing rights and exercising an accountability
function: Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court Bruce M.
Wilson; 3. Strategic deference in the Colombian Constitutional Court,
1992-2006 Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Raga; 4. From quietism to incipient
activism: the institutional and ideological roots of rights adjudication in
Chile Lisa Hilbink and Javier Couso; 5. 'Faithful servants of the regime' -
the Brazilian Constitutional Court's role under the 1988 Constitution
Daniel M. Brinks; 6. Power broker, policymaker, or rights protector? The
Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal in transition Diana Kapiszewski; 7.
Legalist vs. interpretivist: the Supreme Court and the Democratic
transition in Mexico Arianna Sánchez, Beatriz Magloni and Eric Magar; 8. A
theory of the politically independent judiciary: a comparative study of the
United States and Argentina Rebecca Bill Chávez, John A. Ferejohn and Barry
R. Weingast; 9. Courts, power and rights in Argentina and Chile Druscilla
Scribner; 10. Bolivia: the rise (and fall) of judicial review Andrea
Castagnola and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán; 11. The puzzle of judicial politics in
Latin America: a theory of litigation, judicial decisions and inter-branch
crises Gretchen Helmke and Jeffrey K. Staton.