Courts in Latin America

by Gretchen Helmke and Julio Rios-Figueroa

Book Overview

To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107627559
• ISBN13: 9781107627550
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"