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Gretchen Helmke
Researcher at University of Rochester
Publications - 31
Citations - 3788
Gretchen Helmke is an academic researcher from University of Rochester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Democracy & Supreme court. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 31 publications receiving 3413 citations. Previous affiliations of Gretchen Helmke include University of Notre Dame.
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Informal institutions and comparative politics: a research agenda
Gretchen Helmke,Steven Levitsky +1 more
TL;DR: Levitsky et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a framework for studying informal institutions and integrating them into comparative institutional analysis, based on a typology of four patterns of formal-informal institutional interaction: complementary, accommodating, competing, and substitutive.
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The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-level account of judicial decision-making in contexts where judges face institutional insecurity was developed, showing that under certain conditions the lack of judicial independence motivates judges to "strategically defect" against the government once it begins losing power.
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Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America
Gretchen Helmke,Steven Levitsky +1 more
TL;DR: The Informal Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations in Latin America as mentioned in this paper is a good starting point for a discussion of the role of formal and non-formal institutions.
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Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy is proposed, and a set of connections among diverse bodies of scholarship, including US judicial politics, comparative institutional analysis, positive political theory, and Latin American politics.
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Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective
TL;DR: The authors argue that independent courts are not always necessary for the rule of law, particularly where support for individual rights is relatively widespread, and they identify several reasons why democracy may not always prove sufficient for constructing either.