Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, 1997 IDRF Fellow Gretchen Helmke’s findings of the book contradict the longstanding assumption that only independent judges rule against the government of the day. Set in the context of Argentina, the study uses the tools of positive political theory to explore the conditions under which courts rule against the government. Buy from Amazon
Published: Cambridge University Press, 2004
ISBN: 978-0521820592
Citation: Helmke, Gretchen, Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
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