Judging policy courts and policy reform in democratic Brazil

Summary: Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy. But how are they drawn into the policy process, and how are patterns of policy debate shaped by the institutional structure of the courts? Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy, this book examines the judiciary's role in public policy debates. During a period of energetic policy reform, the high salience of many policies, combined with the conducive institutional structure of the judiciary, ensured that Brazilian courts would become an important institution at the heart of the policy process.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804786799 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0804786798 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780804758116 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0804758115
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 227 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Courts and public policy reform in Brazil -- The puzzling policy influence of Brazil's federal courts -- Policy type and judicial contestation -- The Supreme Federal Tribunal and veto players in Brazilian politics -- Judicial contestation of policy : political parties -- Judicial contestation of policy : the OAB -- Courts in the policy process : pension reform in cross-national perspective.