The Institutional Strategy of Brazilian Supreme Court on the Legislative Process

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Fernando Bentes Bentes

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The Brazilian Federal Constitution established a framework of laws that allow for the Supreme Court to act over the social life and branches of the government. Nevertheless, the analysis of the federal legislative process by the strategic institutional approach demonstrates that the panorama among state departments is not asymmetric. In fact, the separation of powers game can create groups of scenarios that generate decisions based on the preference of individual judges, or that restrict the autonomy of the Court when criticism or external retaliations threaten its authority.

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BENTES, Fernando Bentes. The Institutional Strategy of Brazilian Supreme Court on the Legislative Process. Revista Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito, Florianopolis, Brasil, v. 2, n. 2, p. 132–153, 2016. DOI: 10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-012X/2016.v2i2.1476. Disponível em: https://indexlaw.org/index.php/filosofiadireito/article/view/1476. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.
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Fernando Bentes Bentes, Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos - UNIPAC.

Doutor em Direito Constitucional e Teoria do Estado pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Professor do Mestrado em Direito pela Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos (UNIPAC), Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brasil.

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