ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of this research and explores the theoretical relevance of the findings for the study of judicial instability in other developing democracies such as Peru and Indonesia. The latter become interesting case studies to extend the theory of vacancy creation in which executives manipulate the formation of the court. However, the experiences of other countries in the region such as Ecuador reveal that, in fact, there are different mechanisms of vacancy creation that still need to be addressed by future research. Ecuador illuminates a different way in which judicial turnover is driven – that is, by a coalition of parties in congress. Ecuador combines features of strong presidentialism with a highly fragmented party system in which the president’s party rarely has control over congress; thus, it is congress rather than the president that manipulates the formation of the court.
