This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...

This paper deals with judicial departures in consolidating democracies. It investigates to what extent and under what conditions judges in those contexts are not able to decide on their departures themselves but are rather forced to leave due to pressure from the elected branches. We undertook a...

This paper aims to evaluate the effect of different institutional designs on the economic policymaking process and outcomes. I focus on the bargaining between executive and legislative branches of government over the definition of fiscal policy under separation of powers in presidential regimes....