Search for Justice: Neighborhood Courts in Allende's Chile

ISBN-13: 9780367302283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Jack Spence

Opis

This book is about the turbulent class conflict attendant on Allende's presidential campaign and his Unidad Popular coalition's attempts to create a socialist state spawned efforts to change the traditional judicial system in Chile.

Spis treści

Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Popular Origins of Neighborhood Courts -- Barriers to Courts and Attempted Reforms -- Political Perceptions of the Neighborhood Courts -- Operation of the Local Professional Courts -- Formation of People’s Neighborhood Courts -- Development of People’s Neighborhood Courts -- The Interaction Between Courts, Strategy and Goals, and Residents -- Appendix on Methodology

O autorze

Jack Spence is assistant professor in the Political Science Department and the Law and Justice Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He received a Ph.D in political science from M.I.T. and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.