Judging Politics, Condemning Democracy? Justice and Crisis in Brazil
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 37
Abstract
The judicial agents are between the central actors in the brazilian political scenario. Political Science object since de 90s, the brazilian judicical institutions protagonism more recently is part of a circuit integrated by conservative sectors, the big press and corruption fighting operations that promote the public activity criminalization. This “hiperactivism” conjucture in the political judgment deserves a more detailed analysis as of it’s structural implications for the democratic regime.
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Fabiano Engelmann
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