How does a court's policy-making authority shape the nature of judicial behavior? We argue that judicial systems that limit policy-making authority also discourage the politicization of courts, encouraging judges to think narrowly about the interests of litigating parties. In contrast, granting a court high policy-making authority—affecting potentially thousands of cases and other branches of government—naturally encourages judges to consider broader ideological principles. Typically, unraveling cause and effect would be difficult, as judicial behavior and institutions are usually stable and endogenous. But an especially stark sequence of political and institutional changes in Brazil affords analytic leverage to explore these questions. A s...
A major reason that many people are intensely interested in who sits on the Supreme Court is that le...
The study of judicial independence in comparative environments is an increasingly important endeavor...
Since WWII there has been a profound shift in power away from legislatures and toward courts and oth...
How does a court’s policy-making authority shape the nature of judicial behavior? We argue that judi...
How does a court's policy-making authority shape the nature of judicial behavior? We argue that judi...
The Brazilian federal judiciary offers an interesting riddle to scholars of judicial politics and po...
Why does the strength of local courts vary in new democracies? Highlighting empirical and theoretica...
Studies on courts in Latin America have increasingly focused on high court behavior and its relation...
Standard explanations of judicial behaviour (i.e. legal, rational-choice, attitudinal, and instituti...
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the decision-making behavior in Brazil’s Supreme Cour...
The rule of law is the central milestone of modern democratic states. There is a gap, however, betwe...
Why are courts unable to check overzealous governmental actors in Latin America? In addition to the...
This paper intends to question the role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court as an agent of democr...
This paper explains how specialized constitutional courts navigate between the demands of two differ...
Brazil's Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) is an especially interesting case for scholars with an inter...
A major reason that many people are intensely interested in who sits on the Supreme Court is that le...
The study of judicial independence in comparative environments is an increasingly important endeavor...
Since WWII there has been a profound shift in power away from legislatures and toward courts and oth...
How does a court’s policy-making authority shape the nature of judicial behavior? We argue that judi...
How does a court's policy-making authority shape the nature of judicial behavior? We argue that judi...
The Brazilian federal judiciary offers an interesting riddle to scholars of judicial politics and po...
Why does the strength of local courts vary in new democracies? Highlighting empirical and theoretica...
Studies on courts in Latin America have increasingly focused on high court behavior and its relation...
Standard explanations of judicial behaviour (i.e. legal, rational-choice, attitudinal, and instituti...
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the decision-making behavior in Brazil’s Supreme Cour...
The rule of law is the central milestone of modern democratic states. There is a gap, however, betwe...
Why are courts unable to check overzealous governmental actors in Latin America? In addition to the...
This paper intends to question the role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court as an agent of democr...
This paper explains how specialized constitutional courts navigate between the demands of two differ...
Brazil's Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) is an especially interesting case for scholars with an inter...
A major reason that many people are intensely interested in who sits on the Supreme Court is that le...
The study of judicial independence in comparative environments is an increasingly important endeavor...
Since WWII there has been a profound shift in power away from legislatures and toward courts and oth...