High courts and economic governance in Argentina and Brazil

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High courts and economic governance in Argentina and Brazil

Statement of responsibility

Diana Kapiszewski

Creator

• Kapiszewski, Diana

Subject

• Courts of last resort -- Brazil
• Political questions and judicial power -- Brazil
• Political questions and judicial power -- Argentina
• Brazil -- Economic policy
• Courts of last resort -- Argentina
• Argentina -- Economic policy

Language

eng

Summary

"High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the most significant socioeconomic transformations in recent decades. Courts face a critical choice when deciding cases concerning national economic policy, weighing rule of law concerns against economic imperatives. Elected leaders confront equally difficult dilemmas when courts issue decisions challenging their actions. Based on extensive fieldwork in Argentina and Brazil, this study identifies striking variation in inter-branch interactions between the two countries. In Argentina, while high courts often defer to politicians in the economic realm, inter-branch relations are punctuated by tense bouts of conflict. Brazilian courts and elected officials, by contrast, routinely accommodate one another in their decisions about economic policy. Diana Kapiszewski argues that the two high courts' contrasting characters - political in Argentina and statesman-like in Brazil - shaped their decisions on controversial cases and conditioned how elected leaders responded to their rulings, channeling inter-branch interactions into persistent patterns"--

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Provided by publisher

Dewey number

343.8107/0269

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography