Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s - by Finkel, Jodi S (original) (raw)

Judicial Reform as Political Insurance addresses a question central to the comparative judicial politics literature, but one that has garnered little attention in scholarship on Latin America: why do political leaders delegate power to courts? Finkel's approach to the question moves the theoretical debate forward: she queries not only why politicians engage in reforms that limit their own latitude, but when such reforms actually have an effect on judicial power. She addresses the second question by explaining that