Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Judges Off the Bench in Argentina - Couverture rigide

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Castagnola, Andrea

 
9781138280724: Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Judges Off the Bench in Argentina
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ISBN 10 : 1138280720 ISBN 13 : 9781138280724
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench?

Using original field data from Argentina's National Supreme Court and all twenty-four Provincial Supreme Courts, Andrea Castagnola develops a novel theory to explain forced retirements of judges. She argues that in developing democracies the political benefits of manipulating the court outweigh the costs associated with doing so. The instability of the political context and its institutions causes politicians to focus primarily on short-term goals and to care mostly about winning elections. Consequently, judiciaries become a valuable tool for politicians to have under their control.

Contrary to the predictions of strategic retirement theory, Castagnola demonstrates that there are various institutional and non-institutional mechanisms for induced retirement which politicians have used against justices, regardless of the amount of support their party has in Congress. The theoretical innovations contained herein shed much needed light on the existing literature on judicial politics and democratization. Even though the political manipulation of courts is a worldwide phenomenon, previous studies have shown that Argentina is the theory-generating case for studying manipulation of high courts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Castagnola is an assistant professor at the School of Politics and Government at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. She was assistant professor at Flacso-Mexico and holds a Post-Doc from the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on judicial politics in Latin America and Comparative Politics. Her work has been published in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America and Política y Gobierno.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138280720
ISBN 13 
9781138280724
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
140
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0367372037 ISBN 13 :  9780367372033
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