Ebook: The Rule of Law in Brazil: The Legal Construction of Inequality

The rule of law is not a simple concept when it comes to defining the political, economic, and legal developments of a country like Brazil, which is a young democracy struggling with its longstanding extractive institutions and entrenched interests. In this book, Juliano Zaiden Benvindo offers a broad perspective of the functioning, evolution, and dynamics of the rule of law in Brazil from different perspectives. The book explores how Brazilian democracy has dealt with the high levels of social inequality and the authoritarian mindset that still play a big role in its fate, and asks whether the country’s democratic achievements and institutional framework are sufficiently strong to enforce the rule of law as an imperative for Brazil’s development, especially in times when the country is most in need of them.
Volume 2 in the series Rule of Law In Context