Federal Republic of Brazil

Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Democracies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 77-102

  Souza, Celina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

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References (18)

1. See Institute de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) and Programa das Nagoes Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), Relatorio sobre o Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil [Report on human development in Brazil] (Rio de Janeiro, RJ: IPEA and PNUD, 1996), pp. 15-20.
2. See Dennis Mahar, "Federalismo Fiscal no Brasil: A Experiencia Historica," Politico, Fiscal e Programado dos Gastos do Governo, ed. Fernando Rezende et al. (Rio de Janeiro, RJ: IPEA, 1976), pp. 241-80.
3. See Stephane Monclaire, ed., A Constituifdo Desejada (Brasilia: Senado Federal, 1990, PP-39-40.
4. This view is shared, for instance, by David Samuels and Fernando L. Abrucio, "Federalism and Democratic Transitions: The 'New' Politics of the Governors in Brazil," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 30 (Spring 2000): 43-61
5. Barry Ames, The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000)
6. Scott Mainwaring, Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization:The Case of Brazil (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999)
7. Alfred Stepan, "Brazil's Decentralized Federalism: Bringing Government Closer to the Citizens?" Daedalus 129 (Spring 2000): 145-69
8. and David Samuels, "Concurrent Elections, Discordant Results: Presidentialism, Federalism, and Governance in Brazil," Comparative Politics 33 (October 2000): 1-20.
9. See Argelina Figueiredo and Fernando Limongi, "Presidential Power, Legislative Organization, and Party Behavior in Brazil," Comparative Politics 32, no. 2 (January 2000): 151-70.
10. See Celina Souza, Constitutional Engineering in Brazil: The Politics of Federalism and Decentralization (Houndmills and London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1997)
11. Celina Souza, "Brazil: The Prospects of a Center-Constraining Federation in a Fragmented Polity," Publius: The Journal of'Federalism 32 (Spring 2002): 23-48
12. and Wayne Selcher, "The Politics of Decentralized Federalism, National Diversification, and Regionalism in Brazil, "Journal of International Studies and World Affairs 40, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 25-50.
13. For an overview of constitutional lawyers' analyses of Brazilian federalism in English, see, for instance, Fabio K. Comparato, "Economic Order in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988," American Journal ofComparative Law 38 (Fall 1990): 753-72
14. Keith S. Rossen, "Brazil's New Constitution: An Exercise in Transient Constitutionalism for a Transitional Society," American Journal of Comparative Law 38 (Fall 1990): 773-802
15. Jacob Dolinger and Keith S. Rosenn, eds, Panorama of Brazilian Law (Miami, FL: University of Miami North-South Center, 1992)
16. and Marcelo Neves and Julian T. Hottinger, eds, Federalism, Rule of Law and Multiculturalism in Brazil (Basil, Fribourg: Institut du Federalisme and Helbing and Lichtenhahn, 2001).
17. Jose Serra and Jose Roberto Afonso, "Federalismo Fiscal a Brasileira: Algumas Reflexoes," Revista do BNDES 6 (1999): 5-24 at 15.
18. Between 1988 and 1998, 1,935 judicial reviews were proposed. See Luiz Werneck Vianna et al., AJudicializagdo da Politica e das Relates Sociais no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Revan, 1999), p. 63.