THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW

The article maps a profound transformation in the nature of the state-as-law in Latin America since 1975. In 1975, states had legal orders with limited ambition and limited autonomy from the ruler of the day. There were vast social, economic and political spaces left open to arbitrary decision makin...

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Autor principal: BRINKS,DANIEL M
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20120003000032013-02-15THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAWBRINKS,DANIEL M State Rule of Law State Capacity Rights Legality The article maps a profound transformation in the nature of the state-as-law in Latin America since 1975. In 1975, states had legal orders with limited ambition and limited autonomy from the ruler of the day. There were vast social, economic and political spaces left open to arbitrary decision making. Now these spaces have shrunk, and state order had become more formalized. We can now distinguish four models of state-as-law, depending on the density and autonomy of the state's legal order: the original model (an estado político) survives in a very few states, and three new models have emerged, an estado social de derecho, an estado liberal de derecho, and an estado de derecho politizado.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.32 n.3 20122012-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2012000300003en10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300003
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topic State
Rule of Law
State Capacity
Rights
Legality
spellingShingle State
Rule of Law
State Capacity
Rights
Legality
BRINKS,DANIEL M
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
description The article maps a profound transformation in the nature of the state-as-law in Latin America since 1975. In 1975, states had legal orders with limited ambition and limited autonomy from the ruler of the day. There were vast social, economic and political spaces left open to arbitrary decision making. Now these spaces have shrunk, and state order had become more formalized. We can now distinguish four models of state-as-law, depending on the density and autonomy of the state's legal order: the original model (an estado político) survives in a very few states, and three new models have emerged, an estado social de derecho, an estado liberal de derecho, and an estado de derecho politizado.
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title THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
title_short THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
title_full THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
title_fullStr THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
title_full_unstemmed THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE-AS-LAW: STATE CAPACITY AND THE RULE OF LAW
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