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Judicial Power in Latin America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Matthew C. Ingram
Matthew C. Ingram*
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University at Albany, SUNY
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , 2015 , pp. 250 - 260
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References

1. Tom Ginsburg, Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

2. Charles Epp, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).

3. Jeffrey A. Segal and Harold J. Spaeth, The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

4. Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, The Choices Justices Make (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1998).

5. Segal and Spaeth, The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited; cf. Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn, “Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999,” Political Analysis 10, no. 2 (2002): 134–153.

6. C. Neal Tate and Torbjörn Vallinder, The Global Expansion of Judicial Power (New York: New York University Press, 1995).

7. See Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, and Alan Angelí, eds., The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); Diana Kapiszewski and Matthew M. Taylor, “Doing Courts Justice: Studying Judicial Politics in Latin America,” Perspectives on Politics 6, no. 4 (2008): 741–767.

8. Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks, eds., Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

9. Charles R. Epp, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).

10. Epstein and Knight, The Choices Justices Make.

11. Lisa Hilbink, Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

12. Lee Epstein, Conservatives in Court (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985); Steven M. Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).

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14. Rogers M. Smith, “Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Law,” in The Oxford Handbook of Lazv and Politics, ed. Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, and Gregory A. Caldeira, 46-59 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

15. Lisa Hilbink, “The Origins of Positive Judicial Independence,” World Politics 64, no. 4 (2012): 587-621; Matthew C. Ingram, “Networked Justice: Judges, the Diffusion of Ideas, and Legal Reform Movements in Mexico,” Working Paper 385 (Notre Dame, Ind.: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 2012).

16. Richard Snyder, “Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method,” Studies in Comparative International Development 36, no. 1 (2001): 93–110.