Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America - Inequality and the Rule of Law

Klappentext This book examines the effect of social inequality, political influence and institutional design on the effectiveness of Latin American legal systems. Zusammenfassung This book examines the effect of social inequality! political influence! and institutional design on the effectiveness of legal systems in Argentina! Brazil! and Uruguay. Field work and original data applied to qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal that investigating these structures in isolation misses essential dynamics that underlie an effective justice system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system; 2. Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay; 3. Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions; 4. Buenos Aires - political interference and informational dependence; 5. Sao Paolo - normative autonomy and informational failures; 6. Uruguay - strong results from a weak system; 7. Cordoba - high levels of inequality in a strong system; 8. Salvador da Bahia - social cleansing under political and judicial indifference; 9. Binding leviathan.

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• Authors: Daniel M. Brinks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107405097
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40509-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Human rights, civil rights, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional and administrative law: general