Júlio Cattai

U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil

Legal Modernization in the Global South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 1930-1975 and how US Power played a major role in such a process. Besides the global circulation of ideas and institutions, the book discusses the Brazilian institutional development in the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780367643188
• ISBN-10: 0367643189
• Artikelnr.: 68713809

Autorenporträt

Júlio Cattai is an historian of political ideas with interests in liberalism, law, Latin America, and Contemporary History. He also has an interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies (Research Institute, Brazil). He is the author of Guerra Fria e Propaganda: a U.S. Information Agency no Brasil (2019) and is currently researching the birth of neoliberalism in Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Decline of Laissez-Faire, U.S. Power, and the Rise of the
Social State 1 The Executive and Modernity: The "Revolt of Facts against
the Law" 2 The Executive and the Judiciary: Constitutional Review and the
Contours of Individual Freedom 3 The Executive and the Legislative:
Normative Function and the Separation of Powers 4 The Executive and Legal
Education: The "Role of Lawyers in a Changing Society" 5 The Decline of the
Social State and the Rise of Neoliberalism: U.S. Power and the Brazilian
Transition to the Global Order Epilogue