The Limits of Judicialization
From Progress to Backlash in Latin America
Description:... 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.
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