Tag: Brazil
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part III. Ethnographic Encounters with Brazil’s Constitutions
—Jeffrey Omari, Northern Illinois University, School of Law Even after transitioning to a constitutional democracy at the end of its military dictatorship in the mid 1980s, Brazil has remained a country with a deep history of socioeconomic inequality. Indeed, during their control of the presidency from January 2003 through August 2016, a primary aim of…
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Democracy’s Fixer: Disinformation and the Supreme Federal Court in Brazilian Politics
—Lucas Henrique Muniz da Conceição, Doctoral Researcher, Bocconi University, Milan. After a tumultuous October, the Brazilian General Elections have come to an end, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva registering approximately 60.34 million votes, representing a tight majority in the electorate (50.9%).
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Jurists Against Bolsonaro’s Attacks on Courts
— Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer (Federal University of Minas Gerais and Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil) — Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, even before being elected in 2018, opened a fierce attack on the electoral system.
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Informal Co-Optation Semi-Presidentialism: Bolsonaro´s Most Successful Autocratizing Strategy
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Associate Professor at the University of Brasília and CAPES-Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law A significant transformation is taking place in Brazil’s system of government. The country has a long history of discussion of whether its political system should maintain its presidential form or…
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You want it darker? The Brazilian Supreme Court Kills the Flame: The Temporary Suspension of Telegram Services in Brazil
—Lucas Henrique Muniz da Conceição, Ph.D. Student at Bocconi University On March 18, Justice Alexandre de Moraes decided to suspend Telegram until the platform complied with the previous five decisions issued by the Supreme Court. The decision follows the partial results of the current judicial criminal inquiry no.
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Academic Freedom Must be Protected in Brazil
—Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer and Thomas da Rosa de Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais and Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Brazil is quickly becoming a hallmark of constitutional and democratic erosion. While President Bolsonaro engages in a radical attack on the electoral procedures and electronic ballots (which lacks any kind of…
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Black theories matter in achieving a real democracy in Brazil: reflections celebrating the National Black Consciousness Day
— Manuellita Hermes, PhD. Candidate at Università degli Studi di Roma II, Tor Vergata; Rômulo Bittencourt, Master Student of the Graduate-Level Program in Literature and Culture of the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Next November 20th is the National Black Consciousness Day (Dia da Consciência Negra) in Brazil.
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The “Rationality of Fear” on the Edge of Brazilian Democracy: Another Shield Against Authoritarianism?
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development[1] In a period of about two months, a series of protests in South America brought the region again into the spotlight. Except for the Bolivian case,[2] whose causes were mostly related to the presidential election process, the protests in Chile, Ecuador,…
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We Should Learn from Historians: Seeing the Future in Brazil’s Political Landscape
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development The election of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s next President has sparked a fruitful debate over the expansion of an illiberal mindset across the globe, now reaching the biggest economy in Latin America and world’s fourth largest democracy.
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Brazil Reckoning With its Past in Present Days: Will Judges Check Bolsonaro’s Government?
—Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Felipe Guimarães Assis Tirado, LL.M. Candidate, King’s College London Three days after the election of the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency, federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging a former police officer and, for the first time, a former military prosecutor…