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strategic defection: a standalone construct

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Judicial politics

judges ruling against a sitting government once they expect it to lose power, to avoid punishment from the incoming government.

In judicial politics, strategic defection refers to judges ruling against a sitting government once they expect it to lose power, to avoid punishment from the incoming government. This meaning comes from Helmke (2002) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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Helmke, G. (2002). The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court–Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy. American Political Science Review, 96(2), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402000175

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