01353nam a2200169 4500 509324 509324 190501b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Pozas-Loyo, Andrea 4981 Anatomy of an informal institution: The ‘Gentlemen’s Pact’ and judicial selection in Mexico, 1917–1994 2018 p.647-661. The Mexican Constitution of 1917 granted the Supreme Court the power to handpick lower court judges and oversee their careers. For almost eight decades this capacity was not regulated. To fill this void, the justices began to take turns filling vacancies which developed into an informal institution – the so-called ‘Gentlemen’s Pact’. Using original archival data, we document and describe the birth and development of this practice and argue that it consolidated into an informal institution as the judiciary increased in size. We uncover the workings of this social norm that established a patronage model of judicial selection. Our analysis period ends in 1994, when a constitutional reform created a judicial council with the explicit aim of ending patronage and corruption within the judiciary. - Reproduced. Supreme Court - Mexico 4982 Rios-Figueroa, Julio 4983 Journal of Social Policy Judiciary - Mexico ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 383278 IIPA IIPA 2019-05-01 39(5), Nov, 2018: p.647-661. AR119548 2019-05-01 AR