Limits of Judicialization (eBook, PDF)

From Progress to Backlash in Latin America
Redaktion: Botero, Sandra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Latin America was one of the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of what has come to be known as the judicialization of politics - the use of law and legal institutions as tools of social contestation to curb the abuse of power in government, resolve policy disputes, and enforce and expand civil, political, and socio-economic rights. Almost forty years into this experiment, The Limits of Judicialization brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to assess the role that law and courts play in Latin American politics. Featuring studies of hot-button topics including abortion, state violence, judicial corruption, and corruption prosecutions, this volume argues that the institutional and cultural changes that empowered courts, what the editors call the 'judicialization superstructure,' often fall short of the promise of greater accountability and rights protection. Illustrative and expansive, this volume offers a truly interdisciplinary analysis of the limits of judicialized politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009103572
• Artikelnr.: 66176937

Inhaltsangabe

1. Working in New Political Spaces: The Checkered History of Latin American
Judicialization Sandra Botero, Daniel Brinks, and Ezequiel Gonzalez
Ocantos; 2. Critical Disconnects: Progressive Jurisprudence and Tenacious
Impunity in Mexico Janice Gallagher and Jorge Contesse; 3. When Winning in
the Courts is Not Enough: Abortion and the Limits of Legal Mobilization
Without Grassroots Involvement in Peru Camila Gianella; 4. Forms of
Countermovement and Counter-Reform in Latin America: Judicial Backlash or
Resources and Political and Legal Opportunities? Alba Ruibal; 5. Backlash
against State Strengthening Reforms: The Rise and Fall of the CICIG in
Guatemala Rachel E. Bowen; 6. Backlash against Corporate Accountability for
Grave Human Rights Violations in Colombia Laura Bernal-Bermúdez; 7.
Courting Judicial Legitimacy: An Experimental Study of the Colombian
Constitutional Court Sofía Forero-Alba and Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Raga; 8.
Family Ties and Nepotism in the Mexican Federal Judiciary Julio
Ríos-Figueroa; 9. Judicial Corruption: The Constitutional Court of Ecuador
in Comparative Perspective Santiago Basabe-Serrano; 10. Kickbacks,
Crackdown, and Backlash: Legal Accountability in the Lava Jato
Investigation Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor; 11. Turning Corruption
Trials into Political Tools in the Name of Transparency: The Lava Jato Case
Mariana Mota Prado and Marta Rodriguez Machado; 12. Fighting Corruption,
Dismantling Democracy: Antagonism, Communication, and the Political Use of
Lava Jato in Brazil João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos and Esther Solano
Gallego; 13. Prosecutorial Agency, Backlash and Resistance in the Peruvian
Chapter of Lava Jato Viviana Baraybar and Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos; Index.