Constitutional Engineering In Brazil

Author : Celina Souza
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349256943
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Engineering in Brazil written by Celina Souza and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates why a country facing issues that needed to be tackled nationwide chose to decentralize when it moved from authoritarianism to democracy. It discusses the events of the Brazilian constituent assembly and investigates the results of decentralization at the subnational sphere. The results suggest that there was a lack of social consensus on what was to be achieved by decentralization. They suggest that political and economic factors influence the outcomes of decentralization, thus exposing the limits of decentralization on policy results.

Author : Celina Maria de Souza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333681466
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Engineering in Brazil written by Celina Maria de Souza and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates how and why a country facing issues that needed to be tackled nationwide chose to decentralize political power and financial resources when it moved from military rule to democratization. Furthermore, the book examines whether the decision to decentralize in Brazil has changed the allocation of public expenditure at the subnational level, especially regarding education. By analyzing the decision to decentralize and its results at the subnational level, the study embodies both an elite and a grassroots approach. The elite approach encompasses the topics related to decentralization in the Brazilian constituent assembly that sat from 1987 to 1988. The grassroots approach is comprised of three case studies.

Author : Virgílio Afonso da Silva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509929673
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Brazil written by Virgílio Afonso da Silva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original and comprehensive analysis of Brazilian constitutional law and shows how the 1988 Constitution has been a cornerstone in Brazil's struggle to achieve institutional stability and promote the enforcement of fundamental rights. In the realm of rights, although much has been done to decrease the gap between constitutional text and constitutional practice, several types of inequalities still affect and sometimes impair the enforcement of the ambitious bill of rights laid down by the Brazilian Constitution. Within the organisation of powers, the book not only describes how its legislative, executive and judicial functions are organised, but above all else, it analyses how a politically fragmented National Congress, a powerful President and an activist Supreme Court engage with each other in ways that one could hardly grasp by reading the constitutional text without contextual analysis. Similarly, the book also shows how the three-tiered federation established in 1988 has undergone a process of centralisation led not only by the central government but also by the Brazilian Supreme Court. In addition to chapters on organisation of powers, fundamental rights, federalism, and the legislative process, the book also presents an overview of Brazilian constitutionalism with a special focus on the transition from authoritarianism to democracy, which led to the enactment of the 1988 Constitution. In the conclusion, the author argues that part of the Constitution's transformative potential remains to be realised. Enforcing the Constitution, not changing it, has been the real challenge in the last three decades and will continue to be for many years to come.

Author : Herman Gerlach James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional System of Brazil written by Herman Gerlach James and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giovanni Sartori
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814780636
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Constitutional Engineering written by Giovanni Sartori and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral systems. He attacks the conventional wisdom that their influence cannot be predicted and also disputes the view that proportional representation is always best and will deliver 'consensus democracy'. He argues that the double-ballot formulas deserve more consideration for their ability to facilitate governability in adverse circumstances. His comparative assessment of presidential and semi-presidential systems and the variety of formulas that are categorized, sometimes misleadingly, as parliamentary, looks at the conditions that allow a political form to perform as intended. He concludes with a detailed proposal for a new type of government: alternating presidentialism. This meets the need for strong parliamentary control and efficient government, with safeguards against both parliamentary obstructionism and government by decree, and so could help to avoid political paralysis in Latin America, in the post-communist countries of Europe and in countries with dysfunctional parliamentary systems such as Italy and Israel.

Author : Herman Gerlach James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional System of Brazil written by Herman Gerlach James and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Melo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137310847
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Brazil Work written by M. Melo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.

Author : Giovanni Sartori
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814779743
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Constitutional Engineering written by Giovanni Sartori and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral systems. He attacks the conventional wisdom that their influence cannot be predicted and also disputes the view that proportional representation is always best and will deliver 'consensus democracy'. He argues that the double-ballot formulas deserve more consideration for their ability to facilitate governability in adverse circumstances. His comparative assessment of presidential and semi-presidential systems and the variety of formulas that are categorized, sometimes misleadingly, as parliamentary, looks at the conditions that allow a political form to perform as intended. He concludes with a detailed proposal for a new type of government: alternating presidentialism. This meets the need for strong parliamentary control and efficient government, with safeguards against both parliamentary obstructionism and government by decree, and so could help to avoid political paralysis in Latin America, in the post-communist countries of Europe and in countries with dysfunctional parliamentary systems such as Italy and Israel.

Author : Amy Nunn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387096183
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil written by Amy Nunn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil’s public policy response to the AIDS epidemic preceded those of many developing countries. During my tenure as President, in 1996, Brazil adopted a law guaranteeing free and universal access to AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. Brazil became the first developing country to provide publicly-financed AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. We now have one of the world’s most successful AIDS programs that is considered a model for other dev- oping countries. Today, 185,000 people receive life-saving AIDS cocktails in Brazil, and thousands of lives have been saved. But this was not an easy battle. There were many challenges along the way. Twenty years ago, Brazil’s achie- ments today might have seemed impossible. During the 1980s, in Brazil, as elsewhere, there was overwhelming stigma associated with AIDS; people living with HIV often lost their jobs and died quickly before the advent of life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Brazil’s AIDS movement was extraordinarily important in promoting progressive AIDS policies; associations of people living with HIV were the first to denounce pervasive AIDS-related discri- nation and called public attention to the importance of AIDS. Activists protested in the streets for over a decade, engaged the media, and framed AIDS as a human rights issue.

Author : John Kincaid
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572554
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Countries written by John Kincaid and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include Ignatius Ayua Akaayar (Nigeria), Raoul Blindenbacher (Switzerland), Dakas C.J. Dakas (Nigeria), Kris Deschouwer (Belgium), Juan Marcos Gutiérrez González (Mexico), John Kincaid (USA), Rainer Knopff (Canada), Jutta Kramer (Germany), Akhtar Majeed (India), Marat S. Salikov (Russia), Cheryl Saunders (Australia), Anthony M. Sayers (Canada), Nicolas Schmitt (Switzerland), Celina Sousa (Brazil), Nico Steytler (South Africa), and G. Alan Tarr (USA).