Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies. With a focus on social rights litigation in post-authoritari…
Chapters include: 'Theories of Democracy, the Judiciary and Social Rights', 'Courts and Social Transformation: An Analytical Framework', 'Courts and Social Transformation in India', 'Judicial Enforcement and Social Rights: Perspectives from Latin America' and 'Weak Courts, Right…
This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: There are problems …
Since the end of 20th century, judicial expansion has been observed around the globe to such an extent that the judicialization of politics is now commonplace not only in established democracies, but also in nascent ones. Conventional wisdom has long held that political fragment…
The maturation of 'third wave' democracies across the globe provokes new salient questions about how the characteristics of formal democratic institutions, such as political party systems, relate to critical outcomes in political economy, democratic endurance and peace studies. …
In this dissertation, I examine the reasons for differences in electoral institutions and party development in new democracies. I investigate why political leaders sometimes choose candidate-centered electoral rules during democratization, which tend to foster personalistic part…
"Five nations will determine the fate of the global human rights and democracy order"--Page 4 of cover.
The spread of democracy and human rights over the last three decades has dramatically changed the international landscape. In 1989, just over 2 billion people lived in one of the 69 countries considered an electoral democracy. Today, those numbers have almost doubled, with more …