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Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia

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Lydia Brashear Tiede: Judicial Vetoes. Decision-Making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts. doi:10.1017/lsi.2025.24

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2025

Sandra Botero*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Estudios Internacionales, Políticos y Urbanos, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

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