Replication Data for: Judicial Instability and Endogenous Constitutional Change: Lessons from Latin America

The database contains information for the universe of justices serving in eighteen Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) between 1904 and 2010. It includes data for 3,192 Supreme Court and 302 Constitutional Tribunal justices, equivalent to 24,763 justice-years in office. Judges were not included in the sample when they served as alternates (suplentes or conjueces), or when they were members of other institutions (such as congress members) integrating ad hoc constitutional courts.该数据库涵盖1904年至2010年间，18个拉丁美洲国家（阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴西、智利、哥伦比亚、哥斯达黎加、多米尼加共和国、厄瓜多尔、萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、墨西哥、尼加拉瓜、巴拿马、巴拉圭、秘鲁、乌拉圭、委内瑞拉）的全体在职大法官相关信息。其中包含3192名最高法院（Supreme Court）大法官与302名宪法法庭（Constitutional Tribunal）大法官的相关数据，累计覆盖24763个法官任职年度。若大法官以候补法官（suplentes或conjueces）身份履职，或作为其他机构（如国会议员）成员并参与特设宪法法院工作，则不纳入本次样本。