Achilles heel of democracy : (Record no. 17591)
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| fixed length control field | 02039nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE & TIME | |
| control field | 20211027162139.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 211026b2017 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781316823514 (ebook) : |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NLUO |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE | |
| Language | English |
| 082 ## - DDC NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 347.9728012 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Achilles heel of democracy : |
| Sub Title | judicial autonomy and the rule of law in Central America [electronic resource] |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Rachel E. Bowen. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Table of contents:<br/>Chapter 1. Societally penetrated judiciaries and the democratic rule of law <br/>Chapter 2. The evolution of judicial regimes <br/>Chapter 3. Costa Rica: a liberal judicial regime <br/>Chapter 4. Government control regimes in Central America versus the rule of law <br/>Chapter 5. Clandestine control in Guatemala <br/>Chapter 6. Partisan systems. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes appendix A-F and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Featuring the first in-depth comparison of the judicial politics of five under-studied Central American countries, The Achilles Heel of Democracy offers a novel typology of 'judicial regime types' based on the political independence and societal autonomy of the judiciary. This book highlights the under-theorized influences on the justice system - criminals, activists, and other societal actors, and the ways that they intersect with more overtly political influences. Grounded in interviews with judges, lawyers, and activists, it presents the 'high politics' of constitutional conflicts in the context of national political conflicts as well as the 'low politics' of crime control and the operations of trial-level courts. The book begins in the violent and often authoritarian 1980s in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and spans through the tumultuous 2015 'Guatemalan Spring'; the evolution of Costa Rica's robust liberal judicial regime is traced from the 1950s" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Subject | Law. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Cambridge core online |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823514 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
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