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

Matthew M. Taylor ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2005, vol. 25, issue 4, 418-438

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. JEL classification: K0; K4; K40.

Keywords: Judiciary; courts; institutions; public policy; judicialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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