Articles by Jan Boesten

April 15, 2024

Oligarchic defects of democracy in Colombia

Jan Boesten

Colombians are growing increasingly frustrated at their government's failure to produce progressive advances. This failure signals a peculiar democratic deficit: oligarchic modes of rule. Jan Boesten, Lerber Dimas, Daniel Llanos Ramírez and William Mesa argue that oligarchy offers new insights into Latin America's democratic delinquents

Jan Boesten

DFG Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin / Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Jan's work has appeared in the Latin American Research Review (LARR) and Colombia Internacional, Precedente, and several edited volumes.

His current research, funded by a DFG grant, compares peace processes in Colombia in search for institutional caveats of non-state armed order, and ramifications for institutional trajectories.

Constitutional Origin and Norm Creation in Colombia: Discursive Institutionalism and the Empowerment of the Constitutional Court
Routledge, 2024

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