Judging Property: Judicial Independence, Elite Influence, and Land Distribution in Colombia

• In Event: Judicial Politics

Brief Overview

This paper assesses the effect of institutions that promote judicial independence (e.g. meritocratic recruitment and tenure) on whether local-level judges rule in favor of economic elites granting them land property rights in the Colombian case.

Authors

• Madai Urteaga Quispe, University of Notre Dame

• Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Tulane University