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U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil: Legal Modernization in the Global South
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.
| Author(s) | By Julio Cattai. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 214 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 25 Sept 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
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.
Introduction: The Decline of Laissez-Faire, U.S. Power, and the Rise of the Social State 1 The Executive and Modernity: The "Revolt of Facts against the Law" 2 The Executive and the Judiciary: Constitutional Review and the Contours of Individual Freedom 3
Julio Cattai is an historian of political ideas with interests in liberalism, law, Latin America, and Contemporary History. He also has an interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Sao Paulo,
