Strained politics in democracy and its implications for the research on law, politics, and the Judiciary in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v40i.4449Parole chiave:
Corte Suprema Federale brasiliana, analisi politica del pensiero giuridico, costituzionalismo e democrazia, giurisdizionalizzazione della politica, crisi politicaAbstract
Jurists were key actors in triggering the Brazilian crisis that started in 2012 and the strained politics that ensued. This article presents the implications of this situation for the historical and sociopolitical research agenda on law and judicial institutions. This field of research was constituted and consolidated in the 1988 constitutional order around the theme of relations between judicial institutions and democracy. Research has produced relevant knowledge on the subject, but important gaps remain about the historical singularities of the relationship between the legal and the political in Brazilian society. The article adopts a historical and sociological perspective to undertake a conceptual analysis and a critical interpretation of scholarly work on judicial institutions and current politics. After discussing its shortcomings, it presents the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of the current situation, and proposes a political analysis of juridical thinking for research and action regarding the production of constitutional law in strained politics, based on the sociology of political crises and the combination of macro and microanalyses in historical research.
