Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Madeira,Lígia Mori
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Political Science Review
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Resumo: The aim of this article is to investigate the institutionalisation of the state Public Defender's Offices before and after the reform that granted independence and new functions to the Public Defender's Offices in Brazil. We attempt to understand these processes based on theories of judicial empowerment (ideational and governance perspectives), analyse them in the Brazilian states by means of an analysis of two indicators in three different time periods (before, during and after the reform) and verify to what extent the formal (de jure) advances were involved in the exercise of autonomy in the states. The analysis reveals that in spite of the formal achievement of independence, the majority of state Public Defender's Offices are not actually independent and there is a great gap between what the laws stipulate and what actually happens in the public provision of access to justice in Brazil.
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title Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
spellingShingle Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
Madeira,Lígia Mori
Public defender's office
institutionalisation
independence
judicial strengthening
access to justice
title_short Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
title_full Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
title_fullStr Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
title_sort Institutionalisation, Reform and Independence of the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil
author Madeira,Lígia Mori
author_facet Madeira,Lígia Mori
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Madeira,Lígia Mori
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Public defender's office
institutionalisation
independence
judicial strengthening
access to justice
topic Public defender's office
institutionalisation
independence
judicial strengthening
access to justice
description The aim of this article is to investigate the institutionalisation of the state Public Defender's Offices before and after the reform that granted independence and new functions to the Public Defender's Offices in Brazil. We attempt to understand these processes based on theories of judicial empowerment (ideational and governance perspectives), analyse them in the Brazilian states by means of an analysis of two indicators in three different time periods (before, during and after the reform) and verify to what extent the formal (de jure) advances were involved in the exercise of autonomy in the states. The analysis reveals that in spite of the formal achievement of independence, the majority of state Public Defender's Offices are not actually independent and there is a great gap between what the laws stipulate and what actually happens in the public provision of access to justice in Brazil.
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