Verdugo, Sergio2022-01-132022-01-132021Sergio Verdugo, Limited democracy and great distrust: John Hart Ely in Bolivia and Chile, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 515–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab037 https://academic.oup.com/icon/article-abstract/19/2/515/6272967https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab037http://hdl.handle.net/11447/5455This article shows that John Hart Ely’s defense of judicial review, as elaborated in his book Democracy and Distrust, has had little influence in Bolivia and Chile. However, that observation does not mean that a theory justifying judicial review when a political market failure is identified is useless for examining both countries’ judicial decisions. The author argues that an Ely-an procedural approach to judicial review can help justify or reject Chilean and Bolivian rulings—or judicial inactions—if certain conditions are taken into account to adapt Ely’s theory to both jurisdictions.enConstitutional LawJudicial reviewArticle