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In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh
largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its
rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies
will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led
global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil demonstrates that middle
powers, even those of a deeply democratic bent, may differ in their
views of what democracy means on the global stage and how
international relations should be conducted among sovereign
nations. This volume explores Brazil's postures on specific aspects
of foreign relations, including trade, foreign and environmental
policy, humanitarian intervention, nuclear proliferation and
South-South relations, among other topics. The authors argue from a
variety of perspectives that, even as Brazil seeks greater
integration and recognition, it also brings challenges to the
status quo that are emblematic of the tensions accompanying the
rise to prominence of a number of middle powers in an increasingly
multipolar world system.
Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy.
But how are courts 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, "Judging Policy" 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. The Brazilian case thus challenges the
notion that Latin America's courts have been uniformly pliant or
ineffectual, with little impact on politics and policy outcomes.
"Judging Policy" also inserts the judiciary into the scholarly
debate regarding the extent of presidential control of the policy
process in Latin America's largest nation. By analyzing the full
Brazilian federal court system--including not only the high court,
but also trial and appellate courts--the book develops a framework
with cross-national implications for understanding how courts may
influence policy actors' political strategies and the distribution
of power within political systems.
Brazil features regularly in global comparisons of large developing
economies. Yet since the 1980s, the country has been caught in a
low-level equilibrium, marked by lackluster growth and destructive
inequality. One cause is the country's enduring commitment to a set
of ideas and institutions labelled developmentalism. This book
argues that developmentalism has endured, despite hyperactive
reform, because institutional complementarities across economic and
political spheres sustain and drive key actors and strategies that
are individually advantageous, but collectively suboptimal.
Although there has been incremental evolution in some institutions,
complementarities across institutions sustain a pattern of
'decadent developmentalism' that swamps systemic change. Breaking
new ground, Taylor shows how macroeconomic and microeconomic
institutions are tightly interwoven with patterns of
executive-legislative relations, bureaucratic autonomy, and
oversight. His analysis of institutional complementarities across
these five dimensions is relevant not only to Brazil but also to
the broader study of comparative political economy.
Brazil's democracy has repeatedly suffered major corruption
scandals, despite numerous reforms designed to overcome entrenched
patterns of illicit behavior. Why? What has caused corruption
scandals to recur across some four decades of presidential
administrations? And what are the implications of Brazil's
experience for efforts to enhance accountability elsewhere?
Addressing these questions, Matthew Taylor and Luciano Da Ros
provide a framework for evaluating the bottlenecks to effective
accountability in Brazil and analyse the successes and failures of
anticorruption efforts from the early days of the democratic
transition through the demise of the massive Lava Jato
investigations.
Brazil features regularly in global comparisons of large developing
economies. Yet since the 1980s, the country has been caught in a
low-level equilibrium, marked by lackluster growth and destructive
inequality. One cause is the country's enduring commitment to a set
of ideas and institutions labelled developmentalism. This book
argues that developmentalism has endured, despite hyperactive
reform, because institutional complementarities across economic and
political spheres sustain and drive key actors and strategies that
are individually advantageous, but collectively suboptimal.
Although there has been incremental evolution in some institutions,
complementarities across institutions sustain a pattern of
'decadent developmentalism' that swamps systemic change. Breaking
new ground, Taylor shows how macroeconomic and microeconomic
institutions are tightly interwoven with patterns of
executive-legislative relations, bureaucratic autonomy, and
oversight. His analysis of institutional complementarities across
these five dimensions is relevant not only to Brazil but also to
the broader study of comparative political economy.
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