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Ríos-Figueroa, Aguilar (2017), “Justice Institutions in Autocracies: A Framework for Analysis.”

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Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Paloma Aguilar, “Justice Institutions in Autocracies: A Framework for Analysis.” Democratization, vol. 25, no. 1 (2017): 1–18.  Summary: What role do justice institutions play in autocracies? The authors bring together the literatures on authoritarian political institutions and on judicial politics to create a framework to answer this question. They start from the premise …

Ríos-Figueroa, Shen-Bayh (2025), “Courts in the Global South.”

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Julio Ríos-Figueroa and Fiona Shen-Bayh, “Courts in the Global South.” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 28, no. 1 (2025): 151-171. Summary: Research on judicial politics has advanced considerably over the past few decades, particularly in the global South, a geopolitical region that has long been subjected to imbalanced relationships with more industrialized countries in …