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High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil
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High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the most significant socioeconomic transformations in recent decades. Courts face a critical choice when deciding cases concerning national economic policy, weighing rule of law concerns against economic imperatives. Elected leaders confront equally difficult dilemmas when courts issue decisions challenging their actions. Based on extensive fieldwork in Argentina and Brazil, this study identifies striking variation in inter-branch interactions between the two countries. In Argentina, while the high court often defers to politicians in the economic realm, inter-branch relations are punctuated by tense bouts of conflict. The Brazilian high court and elected officials, by contrast, routinely accommodate one another in their decisions about economic policy. Diana Kapiszewski argues that the two high courts' contrasting characters - political in Argentina and statesman-like in Brazil - shape their decisions on controversial cases and condition how elected leaders respond to their rulings, channeling inter-branch interactions into persistent patterns.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 High Court–Elected Branch Interactions in Latin America
- 2 Setting the Scene: Latin America's Triple Transition and the Judicialization of Economic Governance
- 3 Politicization and the Political Court in Argentina
- 4 Professionalization and the Statesman Court in Brazil
- 5 The Political Court, and High Court Submission and Interbranch Confrontation in Argentina
- 6 The Statesman Court and Interbranch Accommodation in Brazil
- 7 Conclusions and Implications
- Appendices
- Notes Concerning Citations to Interviews and Newspaper Articles
- References
- Index