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

AUTOR(ES)

Taylor, Matthew M.

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005-12

RESUMO

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.

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