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<journal-id>0122-9893</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Derecho del Estado]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Derecho Estado]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0122-9893</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Externado de Colombia]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0122-98932018000200037</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18601/01229893.n41.02</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Argumentación como determinante de las decisiones judiciales: evidencia empírica del control abstracto de constitucionalidad en Ecuador]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Legal argumentation and judicial decision making: Empirical evidence from Ecuador]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Castro-Montero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José Luis]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Duran]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marco Proaño]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,pontificia universidad católica de ecuador  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Quito ]]></addr-line>
<country>ecuador</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Pontificia Universidad católica de ecuador  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Quito ]]></addr-line>
<country>ecuador</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>41</numero>
<fpage>37</fpage>
<lpage>65</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0122-98932018000200037&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0122-98932018000200037&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0122-98932018000200037&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Los juristas suelen analizar la argumentación desde una perspectiva formal y normativa aplicada, en su mayoría, al ámbito de los jueces y sus decisiones. este artículo adopta una perspectiva distinta, en tanto examina de manera empírica la calidad de la argumentación de las demandas propuestas dentro de procesos de control constitucional abstracto. en esta línea, este trabajo evalúa en qué medida la habilidad argumentativa de los accionantes da cuenta del sentido de las decisiones judiciales. para el efecto, se define la calidad de la argumentación como la habilidad del demandante para: (i) identificar normas constitucionales violadas y disposiciones inconstitucionales; (ii) exponer sus argumentos de manera clara y coherente, y (iii) sustentar sus pretensiones sobre la base de fuentes jurídicas. A partir del análisis cuantitativo de una base de datos original que incluye cuarenta acciones públicas de inconstitucionalidad resueltas por la corte constitucional de ecuador desde 2008 hasta 2016 y una encuesta dirigida a expertos, este artículo halla que, a diferencia del tipo de accionante (público o privado), la argumentación de las demandas no tiene un impacto estadísticamente significativo sobre las probabilidades de obtener una decisión judicial favorable para las pretensiones de quien la interpone.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Legal scholars often analyze argumentation from a formal perspective, mostly applied to judicial decision making. This article presents an alternative approach, as it empirically evaluates the quality of petitioners' legal argumentation within the context of abstract constitutional review proceedings. The quality of legal argumentation is herein defined as the ability of the petitioner to (i) identify the challenged norm and the potentially infringed constitutional norm, (ii) present clear and coherent arguments, and (iii) justify its arguments upon legal sources, such as jurisprudential precedents or legal doctrine. Original data on forty lawsuits presented before the Ecuadorian constitutional court between 2008 and 2016 is used to test whether legal argumentation determines the outcome of a decision. A novel measure of the overall quality of argumentation and strength of cases brought before the Ecuadorian constitutional court by both public and private parties is also developed in the form of an expert survey. The main findings suggest that plaintiffs' legal argumentation quality does not determine the outcome of the final decision of the Ecuadorian constitutional court, but rather the type of plaintiff (public or private) does.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[control de constitucionalidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[corte constitucional]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ecuador]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Legal argumentation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[constitutional review]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[constitutional court]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></kwd>
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