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Alexandra V. Huneeus, PhD

  • CDDRL Post-doctoral Fellow 2006 - 2007

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Biography

Alexandra has just completed her dissertation entitled "The Dynamics of Judicial Passivity: Chilean Court Deference in an Age of Judicial Power," under the direction of Bob Kagan, Martin Shapiro and Gordon Silverstein. In this study, Alexandra seeks to explain why, despite deepening democratization and political competition, Chilean judges refrain from asserting their power against elected branches of government. She will spend her year at CDDRL turning her dissertation into a book manuscript, and broadening the analysis to theorize further about the role of judicial deference in democratic transitions more generally. She holds a BA, JD and now PhD from Berkeley.