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Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America is a
much-needed volume that will make a significant contribution to the
growing fields of comparative law and politics and Latin American
legal institutions. The book moves these research agendas beyond
the study of high courts by offering theoretically and conceptually
rich empirical analyses of a set of critical supranational,
national, and subnational justice sector institutions that are
generally neglected in the literature. The chapters examine the
region's large federal systems (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico),
courts in Chile and Venezuela, and the main supranational tribunal
in the region, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Aimed at
students of comparative legal institutions while simultaneously
offering lessons for practitioners charged with designing such
institutions, the volume advances our understanding of the design
of justice institutions, how their form and function change over
time, what causes those changes, and what consequences they have.
The volume also pays close attention to how justice institutions
function as a system, exploring institutional interactions across
branches and among levels of government (subnational, national,
supranational) and analyzing how they help to shape, and are shaped
by, politics and law. Incorporating the institutions examined in
the volume into the literature on comparative legal institutions
deepens our understanding of justice systems and how their
component institutions can both bolster and compromise democracy
and the rule of law. Contributors: Matthew C. Ingram, Diana
Kapiszewski, Azul A. Aguiar-Aguilar, Ernani Carvalho, Natalia
Leitao, Catalina Smulovitz, John Seth Alexander, Robert Nyenhuis,
Sidia Maria Porto Lima, Jose Mario Wanderley Gomes Neto, Danilo
Pacheco Fernandes, Louis Dantas de Andrade, Mary L. Volcansek, and
Martin Shapiro.
The role of Latin American courts in facilitating democracy and
economic liberalization is considerable. But while national 'high
courts' have been closely studied, the form, function, and
empowerment of local courts are still not well understood. In
Crafting Courts in New Democracies, Matthew C. Ingram fills this
gap by examining the varying strength of local judicial
institutions in Brazil and Mexico since the 1980s. Combining
statistical analysis and in-depth qualitative research, Ingram
offers a rich account of the politics that shape subnational court
reform in the region's two largest democracies. In contrast to
previous studies, theoretical emphasis is given to the influence of
political ideas over the traditional focus on objective, material
incentives. Exhaustively researched and rigorously presented, this
book will appeal to scholars and policymakers interested in the
judiciary, institutional change, Latin America, the causal role of
ideas, justice reform, and the rule of law.
The role of Latin American courts in facilitating democracy and
economic liberalization is considerable. But while national 'high
courts' have been closely studied, the form, function, and
empowerment of local courts are still not well understood. In
Crafting Courts in New Democracies, Matthew C. Ingram fills this
gap by examining the varying strength of local judicial
institutions in Brazil and Mexico since the 1980s. Combining
statistical analysis and in-depth qualitative research, Ingram
offers a rich account of the politics that shape subnational court
reform in the region's two largest democracies. In contrast to
previous studies, theoretical emphasis is given to the influence of
political ideas over the traditional focus on objective, material
incentives. Exhaustively researched and rigorously presented, this
book will appeal to scholars and policymakers interested in the
judiciary, institutional change, Latin America, the causal role of
ideas, justice reform, and the rule of law.
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