U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780367643188 / Miękka / 2023 / 214 str.

Julio Cattai

Opis

The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 1930-1975 and how US Power played a major role in such a process. Besides the global circulation of ideas and institutions, the book discusses the Brazilian institutional development in the period.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Decline of Laissez-Faire, U.S. Power, and the Rise of the Social State  1 The Executive and Modernity: The "Revolt of Facts against the Law"  2 The Executive and the Judiciary: Constitutional Review and the Contours of Individual Freedom  3 The Executive and the Legislative: Normative Function and the Separation of Powers  4 The Executive and Legal Education: The "Role of Lawyers in a Changing Society"  5 The Decline of the Social State and the Rise of Neoliberalism: U.S. Power and the Brazilian Transition to the Global Order  Epilogue

O autorze

Júlio Cattai is an historian of political ideas with interests in liberalism, law, Latin America, and Contemporary History. He also has an interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies (Research Institute, Brazil). He is the author of Guerra Fria e Propaganda: a U.S. Information Agency no Brasil (2019) and is currently researching the birth of neoliberalism in Brazil.