Citizens against the State: the riddle of high impact, low functionality courts in Brazil



Título del documento: Citizens against the State: the riddle of high impact, low functionality courts in Brazil
Revista: Revista de economia politica
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000280344
ISSN: 0101-3157
Autors: 1
Institucions: 1Georgetown University, Washington, Distrito de Columbia. Estados Unidos de América
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Període: Oct-Dic
Volum: 25
Número: 4
Paginació: 418-438
País: Brasil
Idioma: Portugués
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés The Brazilian federal judiciary offers an interesting riddle to scholars of judicial politics and policy change. While the courts have played a major policy role over the past two decades, constraining and altering federal policy across a range of subjects, the court system has simultaneously been labeled "dysfunctional." This paper investigates this riddle: a system plagued by major systemic flaws in its day-to-day operations, which nonetheless still manages to exert a powerful influence on public policy in Brazil. I adopt a new institutional perspective, focusing on how the institutional and normative structure within which judges and other legal actors operate affects policy outcomes
Disciplines Ciencia política
Paraules clau: Sistemas políticos,
Brasil,
Sistema judicial,
Políticas públicas,
Cortes de justicia,
Judicialización,
Institucionalidad
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