What explains institutional instability in national judicial institutions? Much extant research focuses on de facto institutional instability, emphasizing political motivations behind irregular changes to high court composition. In contrast, I consider the causes for de jure chan- ges made to the Ecuadorian Supreme Court from 1979 to the present, drawing on qualitative and quantitative analyses. I contend that the judicialization of politics and presidential interest in stacking the courts are central explanatory factors, and that changes to the Supreme Court's institutional framework reflect implicit compromises and political arrangements negotiated by strategic political actors. As such, institutional reforms to national judicial instiutt...
This document seeks to introduce the overlooked studied relationship between democratic consolidatio...
From introduction: "During the last two decades, social scientists have begun to examine the links ...
Abstract: Judicial reform presents a paradox: why would a ruling party agree to judicial reforms tha...
Este artículo analiza la influencia partidista sobre la designación de jueces supremos en democracia...
Cette thèse porte sur les transformations du pouvoir judiciaire survenues en Équateur entre 1979 et ...
Este artículo analiza la influencia partidista sobre la designación de jueces supremos en democracia...
"This article identifies the variables that explain the dissenting legal vote in courts that operate...
"This article identifies the variables that explain the dissenting legal vote in courts that operate...
This work, in English "Struggle for power, organic crisis and judicial independence", has its origin...
Why are courts unable to check overzealous governmental actors in Latin America? In addition to the...
Este texto busca introducir una problemática hasta ahora poco estudiada en los análisis sobre la con...
Supreme Courts are collegiate organs of conduction of the Judicial Power, and they have decision-mak...
Este artículo identifica los factores que explican la inestabilidad judicial observada en la Corte S...
The central argument of my dissertation is that political parties and timing influence constitutiona...
Este artículo desarrolla y utiliza un índice de ubicación ideológica de jueces para explicar que, ba...
This document seeks to introduce the overlooked studied relationship between democratic consolidatio...
From introduction: "During the last two decades, social scientists have begun to examine the links ...
Abstract: Judicial reform presents a paradox: why would a ruling party agree to judicial reforms tha...
Este artículo analiza la influencia partidista sobre la designación de jueces supremos en democracia...
Cette thèse porte sur les transformations du pouvoir judiciaire survenues en Équateur entre 1979 et ...
Este artículo analiza la influencia partidista sobre la designación de jueces supremos en democracia...
"This article identifies the variables that explain the dissenting legal vote in courts that operate...
"This article identifies the variables that explain the dissenting legal vote in courts that operate...
This work, in English "Struggle for power, organic crisis and judicial independence", has its origin...
Why are courts unable to check overzealous governmental actors in Latin America? In addition to the...
Este texto busca introducir una problemática hasta ahora poco estudiada en los análisis sobre la con...
Supreme Courts are collegiate organs of conduction of the Judicial Power, and they have decision-mak...
Este artículo identifica los factores que explican la inestabilidad judicial observada en la Corte S...
The central argument of my dissertation is that political parties and timing influence constitutiona...
Este artículo desarrolla y utiliza un índice de ubicación ideológica de jueces para explicar que, ba...
This document seeks to introduce the overlooked studied relationship between democratic consolidatio...
From introduction: "During the last two decades, social scientists have begun to examine the links ...
Abstract: Judicial reform presents a paradox: why would a ruling party agree to judicial reforms tha...