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Overcoming the Limits of Legal Opportunity Structures: LGBT Rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia
Latin American Politics and Society ( IF 1.673 ) Pub Date : 2019-03-14 , DOI: 10.1017/lap.2018.76
Bruce M. Wilson , Camila Gianella-Malca

Costa Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex marriage (SSM) in mid-2000s; however, these attempts sparked a major anti-LGBT backlash by religious and conservative organizations. Yet a decade later, Colombia legalized SSM while Costa Rica still lacks the right to SSM. Using a most-similar systems comparative case study, this study engages the judicial politics literature to explain this divergent outcome. It details how courts, while staying receptive to many individual LGBT rights claims, deferred SSM legalization to popularly elected branches. In spite of the lack of legislative success in both countries, in Colombia a new litigation strategy harnessed that deference to craft a litigated route to legalized SSM. In Costa Rica, the courts’ lack of conditions or deadlines has left SSM foundering in the congress.

中文翻译:

克服法律机会结构的限制:哥斯达黎加和哥伦比亚 LGBT 权利的不同路径

哥斯达黎加和哥伦比亚是最早保护许多 LGBT 权利的两个拉丁美洲国家,在 2000 年代中期试图扩大这些权利并提起同性婚姻 (SSM) 诉讼;然而,这些尝试引发了宗教和保守组织对反 LGBT 的强烈反对。然而十年后,哥伦比亚将 SSM 合法化,而哥斯达黎加仍然缺乏 SSM 的权利。使用最相似的系统比较案例研究,本研究利用司法政治文献来解释这种不同的结果。它详细说明了法院如何在接受许多个人 LGBT 权利主张的同时,将 SSM 合法化推迟到民选分支机构。尽管这两个国家都缺乏立法上的成功,但在哥伦比亚,一项新的诉讼策略利用这种尊重来制定一条使 SSM 合法化的诉讼途径。在哥斯达黎加,
更新日期:2019-03-14
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