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Subject(s)

• Law—Brazil—History—20th century [Browse]
• Constitutional history—Brazil—20th century [Browse]
• Liberalism—Brazil—History—20th century [Browse]
• Brazil—Politics and government—20th century [Browse]
• Law—Brazil—American influences—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in US foreign policy [More in this series]

Summary note

"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. A profound "Crisis of Civilization" marked the first decades of the century: the references of space and time vanished with the vertiginous expansion of cities and industries, while a myriad of immigrants and former slaves were alleged to be threatening the country's traditions. Brazilian elites blamed liberalism for such a "Crisis". Based on a decade of research, this book centralizes Brazilian history in liberalism and offers a genealogy of the jurisprudential and institutional struggles to correct the culture of laissez-faire. Using archival sources, it shows the direct US influence on Brazilian thought and development. Recasting the history of legal ideas in the twentieth-century and providing novel interpretations on major political processes, it offers a rigorous and fresh look at the development of liberalism in the country. Covering five decades of history and offering a transnational approach involving the U.S. hegemonic role in Brazil, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of law, US foreign policy, area studies and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : The decline of laissez-faire, U.S. power, and the rise of the social state
• The executive and the positive law : modernity and the "revolt of the fact against the law"
• The executive and the judiciary : constitutional review and the contours of the individual
• The executive and the legislature : normative function and the separation of powers
• The executive and the legal education : the "role of lawyers in a changing society"
• The decline of the social state and the rise of neoliberalism : U.S. power and the Brazilian transition to the global order.

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Other title(s)

United States power and the social state in Brazil

ISBN

• 9780367643164 (hardcover)
• 0367643162 (hardcover)
• 9780367643188 (paperback)
• 0367643189 (paperback)

LCCN

2021032971

OCLC

1259046303

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