Affiliation: | * Associate professor of political science, University of Central Florida, and guest researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the "Courts and the Marginalized: Comparative Experiences" workshop at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, December 12, 2005. The author would like to thank Juan Carlos Rodríguez Cordero, Roberto Gargarella, Siri Gloppen, Rachel Sieder, Kerstin Hamann, and the ICON reviewers and editors. Email: bwilson{at}mail.ucf.edu |