id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sx61dj55b87 Vilma C. Balmaceda The Human Rights Ombudsman in the Central Andes 2010 .txt text/plain 328 12 28 This dissertation's most important theoretical contribution to the field of comparative politics and to Latin American politics is that formal institutional arrangements did not explain the significant degrees of variance in effectiveness and in behavioral independence of ombudsman chief officers. Instead of simply assuming the independence of ombudsman head officers based on the autonomy formally accorded to them in their respective constitutions and laws, this study analyzes and measures the actual behavioral independence demonstrated by the individuals that have served as ombudsman chief officers since the creation of the agency in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. cache/sx61dj55b87.txt txt/sx61dj55b87.txt