The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America

1. Introduction
Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, Alan Angell

2. Judicialization of Politics: The Changing Political Role of the Judiciary in Mexico
Pilar Domingo

3. Changing Dynamics: The Political Impact of Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court
Bruce M. Wilson

4. The Judicialization of Politics in Colombia: The Old and the New
Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa

5. The Judicialization of Chilean Politics: The Rights Revolution That Never Was
Javier A. Couso

6. Judicialization and Regime Transformation: The Venezuelan Supreme Court
Rogelio Pérez Perdomo

7. Petitioning and Creating Rights: Judicialization in Argentina
Catalina Smulovitz

8. Community Justice Institutions and Judicialization: Lessons from Rural Peru
Julio Faundez

9. Private Conflicts, Public Powers: Domestic Violence in the Courts in Latin America
Fiona Macaulay

10. Constitutionalism, the expansion of Justice and the Judicialization of Politics in Brazil
Rogério B. Arantes

11. The Transnational Dimension of the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
Kathryn Sikkink

12. Afterword
Guillermo O’Donnell

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, Latin American Politics, Political Science, Law, general