Thread by @GerardoMunck

A growing body of literature at the intersection of jurisprudence and political science is shedding light on constitutionalism, the law and politics in #LatinAmerica.

Here are some of the authors and books I turn to for instruction on these issues.

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Albert, Richard @RichardAlbert, Carlos Bernal @carloslbernal, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo @JulianoZaiden, Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America (@hartpublishing 2019)

Botero, Sandra @sboteroc, Daniel M. Brinks, and Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos @egocantos (eds.), The Limits of Judicialization: From Progress to Backlash in Latin America (@Cambridge_Uni 2022)

Bowen, Rachel E., The Achilles Heel of Democracy: Judicial Autonomy and the Rule of Law in Central America (@Cambridge_Uni 2017)

Gargarella, Roberto @Rgargarella, Latin American Constitutionalism, 1810-2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution (@Cambridge_Uni 2013)

Helmke, Gretchen, and Julio Ríos-Figueroa @JulioRiosFigue1 (eds.), Courts in Latin America (@Cambridge_Uni 2011)

Hübner Mendes, Conrado @conradohubner; Roberto Gargarella @Rgargarella, and Sebastián Guidi @sebasguidi (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (@UniofOxford 2022)

Ingram, Matthew C. and Diana Kapiszewski (eds.), Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America (@UNDPress 2019)

Sieder, Rachel @SiederRachel, Karina Ansolabehere @kansola1, and Tatiana Alfonso @TatianaAlfonso (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America (@routledgebooks 2019)

Here's another book for the list: Julio Ríos-Figuero @JulioRiosFigue1, Constitutional Courts as Mediators: Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America (@Cambridge_Uni 2017)

And yet another book for the list: Andrea Castagnola @castagnola_a, Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina (2018)