How does institutional change in established democracies affect the distribution of political power in society? The new constitutional court in Costa Rica allows the authors to analyze the effects of judicial reform on the ...

Las instituciones financieras internacionales han financiado la mayor parte de la reforma judicial en América Latina, con el objetivo de limitar los poderes económicos de los Estados y estimular el desarrollo de libres ...

On 7 February 2010, almost 2 million Costa Ricans (69% of the registered electorate) voted in the country’s general election, the fifteenth consecutive general election to be held since the end of the short but bloody civil ...

Starting in the 1980s, and accelerating through the 1990s, international financial institutions (IFIs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development agencies funnelled considerable resources into judicial reform ...

A partir de la década de 1980, e intensificándose en la década de 1990, las instituciones financieras internacionales (IFIs), las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONGs) y las agencias de desarrollo destinaron gran cantidad ...