The limits of judicialization : from progress to backlash in Latin America /
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...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Working in new political spaces : the checkered history of Latin American judicialization / Sandra Botero, Daniel Brinks and Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
- Critical disconnects : progressive jurisprudence and tenacious impunity in Mexico / Janice Gallagher and Jorge Contesse
- When winning in the courts is not enough : abortion and the limits of legal mobilization without grassroots involvement in Peru / Camila Gianella
- Forms of countermovement and counter-reform in Latin America : judicial backlash or resources and political and legal opportunities? / Alba Ruibal
- Backlash against state strengthening reforms : the rise and fall of the CICIG in GuatemalaI / Rachel E. Bowen
- Backlash against corporate accountability for grave human rights violations in Colombia / Laura Bernal-Bermúdez
- Courting judicial legitimacy : an experimental study of the Colombian Constitutional Court / Sofía Forero-Alba and Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Raga
- Family ties and nepotism in the Mexican Federal Judiciary / Julio Ríos-Figueroa
- Judicial corruption : The Constitutional Court of Ecuador in comparative perspective / Santiago Basabe-Serrano
- Kickbacks, crackdown, and backlash : legal accountability in the Lava Jato Investigation / Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor
- Turning corruption trials into political tools in the name of transparency : the Lava Jato Case / Mariana Mota Prado & Marta Rodriguez Machado
- Fighting corruption, dismantling democracy : antagonism, communication, and the political use of Lava Jato in Brazil / João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos & Esther Solano Gallego
- Prosecutorial agency, backlash and resistance in the Peruvian Chapter of Lava Jato / Viviana Baraybar and Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos.
