I RETHINKING JUDICIAL INSTABILITY in DEVELOPING
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by D-Scholarship@Pitt RETHINKING JUDICIAL INSTABILITY IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURTS IN ARGENTINA by María Andrea Castagnola B.A. International Studies, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2001 M.A. Development Management and Public Policy, Georgetown University, 2004 M.A. Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science i University of Pittsburgh 2010 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by María Andrea Castagnola It was defended on April 15th, 2010 and approved by Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, Political Science University of Notre Dame Steven Finkel, Daniel Wallace Professor, Political Science University of Pittsburgh Thesis Director: Chris Bonneau, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh Thesis Director: Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh ii Copyright © by María Andrea Castagnola 2010 iii RETHINKING JUDICIAL INSTABILITY IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURTS IN ARGENTINA María Andrea Castagnola, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2010 Why do justices remain in office such a short time despite having life tenure? The objective of this doctoral dissertation is to answer this question by systematically examining which factors influence judges’ stability in office at the levels of both the Argentine National Supreme Court of Justice and the Provincial Supreme Courts, from 1983 to 2009. The main argument is that, in developing democracies like Argentina, the larger the ideological distance between the appointing executive and the current executive, the higher the probability that a sitting justice appointed by an executive with different preferences will leave office.
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