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- Title
TRUSTING THE DEPENDENT JUDICIARY: EVIDENCE FROM ECUADOR.
- Authors
ARMENDÁRIZ, PAULA
- Abstract
The literature on judicial politics has assumed that judicial independence and trust in the judiciary go hand in hand. Based on evidence from Ecuador, I show that citizens' trust and support for the judiciary can increase despite decreasing levels of judicial independence, which I argue is largely driven by citizens' approval of executive performance in office. Popular presidents send cues to their constituents regarding how and why the judiciary should be trusted, despite its institutional flaws. These results open the possibility to question whether public trust in the judiciary necessarily stems from the presence of independent judicial institutions.
- Subjects
JUDICIAL independence; PRESIDENTS; PUBLIC opinion; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; DECENTRALIZATION in government
- Publication
Revista de Ciencia Politica, 2020, Vol 40, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0716-1417
- Publication type
Article