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King, Mariah Dawn, author Mumme, Stephen P., advisor Hochstetler, Kathryn, committee member Daum, Courtenay W., committee member DeMirjyn, Maricela, committee member 2007-01-03T04:41:43Z 2007-01-03T04:41:43Z 2010 King_colostate_0053A_10074.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10217/40468 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.018629 The frequent gap between de jure and de facto arrangements within South American judicial systems suggest that an institutional focus is not enough to understand effective access. This dissertation uses a constructivist approach to measure judicial access for the environmental and gay and lesbian social movements in Chile and Argentina through examining the effect of societal, individual justices' and social movement activists' perceptions on the social movements' level of de facto judicial access. I find that while individual justices' perceptions of the social movement seeking rights can certainly affect the outcomes of cases, it is the external cultural variable of societal perceptions that more directly influences activists' own perceptions about using the judicial system. Societal perceptions (public opinion) can affect activists' decisions when choosing which political avenues, if any, they should use to gain rights - hence expanding or contracting their level of de jure judicial access. born digital doctoral dissertations English eng Colorado State University. Libraries 2000-2019 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. justice GLBT environment Chile Argentina access Political questions and judicial power -- Argentina Rule of law -- Argentina Social movements -- Chile Social movements -- Argentina Rule of law -- Chile Political questions and judicial power -- Chile The role of perceptions on effective judicial access for the gay and lesbian and environmental social movements in Chile and Argentina Text Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral Political Science Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access