You have no items in your shopping cart.

Law and Politics in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A new database on judicial behavior and compliance in the IACtHR

Stiansen, Øyvind; Naurín, Daniel; Bøyum, Live Standal


  • Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
  • Política
  • Tribunales internacionales
  • Sentencias
  • Cumplimiento de sentencias


* This resource is not open access

International courts are increasingly affecting domestic and international politics and are receiving increased attention in political science research. In addition to their political importance, international courts provide new opportunities for testing theories of judicial politics, yet further progress requires access to data, particularly on the courts that have so far received less scrutiny. This article introduces a new database on Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) judgments. The database contains information on case proceedings, judicial behavior, judgment content, the actors involved, and compliance with remedial orders. The current version of the database contains data on 201 IACtHR cases. We illustrate how the database can be used to address important questions in judicial politics by analyzing whether the propensity of the IACtHR to rule against a responding state correlates with the positions taken by the same state early in the proceedings before the court. We find evidence of such a relationship.

Book Type: PDF
DRM: Yes
Este sitio y su contenido de acceso abierto se encuentran bajo Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Unported.
Avenidas 8 y 10, Calles 45, Los Yoses, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica.
Teléfono: +506 2527 1600 | Apartado Postal 6906-1000, San José, Costa Rica.
gestionconocimiento@corteidh.or.cr