U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil: Legal Modernization in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9780367643164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 214 str.

Júlio 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