| Journal: | Revista de economia politica |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000280344 |
| ISSN: | 0101-3157 |
| Authors: | Taylor, Matthew M1 |
| Institutions: | 1Georgetown University, Washington, Distrito de Columbia. Estados Unidos de América |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | Oct-Dic |
| Volumen: | 25 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Pages: | 418-438 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | 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 |
| Keyword: | Sistemas políticos, Brasil, Sistema judicial, Políticas públicas, Cortes de justicia, Judicialización, Institucionalidad |
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