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Ousted from the bench? : judicial departures in consolidating democracies

Llanos, Mariana; Heyl, Charlotte; Lucas, Viola; Stroh, … - 2017

This paper deals with judicial departures in consolidating democracies. It investigates to what extent and under what conditions judges in those contexts are not able to decide on their departures themselves but are rather forced to leave due to pressure from the elected branches. We undertook a...

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Beyond justices : the legal culture of judges in Mexico

Aguiar Aguilar, Azul América - 2020

Judges' ideas, beliefs, and values are central to adjudication. Empowering the courts was a crucial step in third‐wave democracies and, after some unfulfilled promises regarding the potential of the judicialization of politics for rights expansion, we need to learn more about the individuals...

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The consequences of appointment policies for court legitimacy in Benin : a network analysis approach

Stroh, Alexander - 2016

This paper seeks to explain how courts in new and vulnerable democracies acquire legitimacy and thus become credible actors able to facilitate or even foster the consolidation of democracy. It analyses the case of the Constitutional Court of Benin (CCB), demonstrating that governmental...

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Guatemala in the 1980s : a genocide turned into ethnocide?

Oettler, Anika - 2006

While the Guatemalan Truth Commission came to the conclusion that agents of the state had committed acts of genocide in the early 1980s, fundamental questions remain. Should we indeed speak of the massacres committed between 1981 and 1983 in Guatemala as "genocide", or would "ethnocide" be the...

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Informal interference in the judiciary in new democracies : a comparison of six African and Latin American cases

Llanos, Mariana; Tibi Weber, Cordula; Heyl, Charlotte; … - 2014

This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...

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Judicial independence and development: evidence from Pakistan

Mehmood, Sultan - 2020

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Obtaining a second chance education in post-conflict Rwanda : motivations and paths

Taka, Miho - 2019

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The effects of electoral institutions in Rwanda : why proportional representation supports the authoritarian regime

Stroh, Alexander - 2009

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Crafting political institutions in Africa : electoral systems and systems of government in Rwanda and Zambia compared

Stroh, Alexander - 2007

of how Rwanda and Zambia crafted their new electoral systems and the systems of government regards procedural, structural … ; transition ; electoral system ; Rwanda ; Zambia … der Wahl neuer politischer Institutionen beimisst. Diese vergleichende Untersuchung der Institutionengestaltung in Ruanda …

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The effects of electoral institutions in Rwanda : why proportional representation supports the authoritarian regime

Stroh, Alexander - 2009

While much has been written about the special design of Rwanda's judiciary in order to handle the aftermath of the … designed electoral system has for Rwanda's political development. As a starting point, the paper emphasises the need to link … types, "institutional engineers" may pursue different goals. The paper concludes that in the case of Rwanda proportional …

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