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7 - Determinants of Legal Invalidation by Constitutional Courts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2022

Lydia Tiede
Lydia Tiede
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University of Houston
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This chapter provides explanations and predictions for factors that drive constitutional courts’ decisions in Chile and Colombia. The chapter uses data on the courts’ overall case decisions on the two courts. The chapter shows that changes in the courts’ composition, based on institutional selector, by case and due to fluctuations caused by judges’ schedule, term limits and quorum rules, influence the likelihood of the two courts issuing judicial vetoes,

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Judicial Vetoes
Decision-making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts
 , pp. 170 - 207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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