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Doing Courts Justice? Studying Judicial Politics in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2008

Diana Kapiszewski  and
Matthew M. Taylor
Diana Kapiszewski
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine. E-mail: dianakap@uci.edu
Matthew M. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of São Paulo. E-mail: taylor@usp.br
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Abstract

The past decade has brought an unprecedented boom in the study of courts as political actors in Latin America. We examine the extraordinary diversity of academic research on judicial politics in the region, identifying the key questions, findings, and theoretical debates in the literature, highlighting important conceptual disjunctions, and critiquing the research methods scholars of judicial politics in Latin America have employed in their work. We close by suggesting new avenues of inquiry to help advance the collective effort to understand the roles courts play in Latin American politics.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 741 - 767
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2008

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