Tag: campaign finance
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Constitutional Design, Institutional Strategy, and Corporate Campaign Contributions in Brazil
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasilia Supreme Court decisions on the limits and scope of electoral rules are normally controversial. One of the reasons is that the boundaries between law and politics are often blurred. The US Supreme Court, in Citizens United v.
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Corporate Campaign Contributions in Brazil: Of Courts, Congresses, and the Agendas of Individual Justices
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasilia Debates over the relationship between Congress and the Judiciary are quite common in the comparative constitutional literature, especially in the current scenario of rising activism of constitutional courts worldwide. Particularly interesting is to observe how Supreme Courts and Parliaments negotiate the pace of their decisions, sometimes in a symbiotic…