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Allende Government
Allende's presidential campaign
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Catholic University
Cd Effort
Chile's competing ideologies
Chilean Constitution
Chilean Judiciary
Chilean Political Economy
community dispute resolution in Chile
comparative judicial systems
Construction Front
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Court Assignment
decentralization
Decentralized Courts
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Dispute Processing
Dispute Processing Institution
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Erratic Quality
grassroots legal reform
Juntas De Vecinos
Land Takeovers
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Latin American politics
Lay Judge
Legal Aid Reforms
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Neighborhood Courts
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Petit Bourgeois Sectors
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Squatter Settlement
Street Level Bureaucrats
Traditional Court System
traditional judicial system
Unitary Popular Action
urban dispute resolution
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- ISBN 9780367302283
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 136 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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. Though the UP failed to legislate a nationwide system of neighborhood courts staffed with lay judges, two decentralized courts did emerge. One employed professional judges, who held weekly informal court sessions for poor residents of their jurisdictions; the other was established illegally by a highly organized squatter settlement. Bearing the imprint of Chile's competing ideologies, the two courts were deeply affected by the dramatic events of the Allende years, and their history sheds light on those years. Moreover, the contrasting strategies and processes of the courts provide insights into the general problem of decentralization of urban institutions and the particular problems of urban dispute resolution.
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.
