Constitutional erosion in Brazil: progresses and failures of a constitutional project
In: Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Introduction: Defining Brazil's Constitutional Erosion -- 1. Brazil Under Bolsonaro -- 2. Military and Politics -- 3. What is a Constitutional Crisis? -- 4. Crises and Constitutional Identity -- 5. Constitutional Erosion -- 6. The Structure of this Book -- 1. Transitional Constitutionalism: Attempts at Controlling a Transition -- 1. The Brazilian Dictatorship of 1964-1985 Juridical Apparatus -- 2. Transitional Justice Processes Shaping Constitutionalism -- 3. Amnesty and the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal -- 4. The Dictatorship of 1964-1985 On Trial -- 5. Brazilian Institutions Coping with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- 6. Militaries in Brazil: From Impunity to Politics -- 2. Social-Democratic Constitutionalism: Neoliberal Unconstitutional Politics and Socio-Economic Rights -- 1. Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism -- 2. Constitutions and Economic Power -- 3. Transformative Constitutionalism and Transformative Justice -- 4. Socioeconomic Rights, Constitutionalism and Transition in South Africa -- 5. Socioeconomic Rights, Constitutionalism and Transition in Brazil -- 6. Neoliberalism and Transitional Constitutionalism -- 3. Institutional and Personal Guarantees: Judges, Inequality and Politics -- 1. Against the Transition: The Lack of Efficient Judicial Institutional Reforms -- 2. Corporativist Guarantees -- 3. Operation Carwash: Taming Politics Through Judicial Discourse -- 4. Operation Carwash Personification -- 5. From the Bench to Mega-Politics -- 6. Individualities vs Institutional Behaviour -- 4. Judges and Courts Destabilising Constitutionalism -- 1. Deputies and Senators in the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal -- 2. The Judicial Oversight of an Impeachment -- 3. Ruling on Presumption of Innocence: Balancing and Unbalancing Constitutional Rights -- 4. Imprisoning the Ex-President -- 5. Constitutional Courts and Political Instability -- 6. Unstable Constitutionalism in Brazil -- 5. Subverting the Rule of Law: The Military and the Milícias -- 1. The Military in Brazilian Post 1988 Democracy.