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Association: Name: Southern Political Science Association URL: http://www.spsa.net
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Sanchez Urribarri, Raul. "Partisan Judges in Unstable Party Systems: A Study of the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s Electoral Justice." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel InterContinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 03, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143166_index.html>

Sanchez Urribarri, R. A. , 2007-01-03 "Partisan Judges in Unstable Party Systems: A Study of the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s Electoral Justice." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel InterContinental, New Orleans, LA <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143166_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: It is a controversial truism that the political parties’ role in democratic regimes has weakened in Latin America, and other regions. It is a common assumption that judicial independence in the region is seriously lacking, and that judges are open to all sorts of exogenous influences –particularly from the political arena. What is the connection between these two phenomena, if there is any? In this respect, I argue that the justices’ partisan affiliation can be an important, distinct predictor of their votes in cases of political content, in countries where parties have a stronger, sometimes almighty presence in the political arena. I also argue that such an influence varies as a function of the degree of institutionalization of the party system in each particular country. To test these statements, I attempt to examine judicial voting behavior in the electoral jurisdiction of the Venezuelan Supreme Court between 1989 and 2005. The focus on this type of cases seems reasonable because of their highly politicized nature, along with their lack of ideological content more generally. Furthermore, the Venezuelan political context provides an interesting ground to test this theory. Its party system, once featuring a stable, too-strong two-party configuration, deinstitutionalized in the 1990s and finally collapsed in 2005. This enquiry will be based on quantitative analyses of judges’ votes, using a database of decisions of the aforesaid tribunal especially assembled for this purpose. To strengthen the arguments, I will supplement such analyses with inferences drawn from qualitative sources.

Clingman v. Beaver (2005) and Minor Parties: Assessing the Supreme Court's Favoritism of the Two Party System

Role Orientations of Judges in Latin America: A Pilot Project Survey of Judges in the Supreme Court of Justice, Court of Appeal, and Courts of First Instance in Uruguay