Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution

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Autor(a) principal: Augusto Rotta, Arthur
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Peres, Paulo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Revista Direito GV
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/revdireitogv/article/view/84814
Resumo: This paper aims to analyze the institutional evolution of impeachment, from its emergence in England to the occurrence of the American and French matrices, which would later be repeated, with variations, in current presidential and semipresidential democracies. The recent mutation in this instrument function, as we argue here, turned it into a political weapon at disposal of parliamentary oppositions against governments, by one hand, and by the other hand, converted it in a quite peculiar motion of distrust to oust presidents. Nonetheless, this mutation must be understood as another historical change that characterizes a long trajectory of evolutionary adaptations to fit the constant political environment modifications. We conclude by emphasizing the necessity of analyzing the impeachment institutional evolution history in order to understand accurately the reasons for the development of these new functions in currently context of presidential democracies crisis.
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spelling Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional EvolutionImpeachment: história e evolução institucionalImpeachmentInstitutional evolutionPresidencialismParliamentarismPresidential democraciesImpeachmentPresidencialismoParlamentarismoDemocracias presidencialistasMandatos presidenciaisThis paper aims to analyze the institutional evolution of impeachment, from its emergence in England to the occurrence of the American and French matrices, which would later be repeated, with variations, in current presidential and semipresidential democracies. The recent mutation in this instrument function, as we argue here, turned it into a political weapon at disposal of parliamentary oppositions against governments, by one hand, and by the other hand, converted it in a quite peculiar motion of distrust to oust presidents. Nonetheless, this mutation must be understood as another historical change that characterizes a long trajectory of evolutionary adaptations to fit the constant political environment modifications. We conclude by emphasizing the necessity of analyzing the impeachment institutional evolution history in order to understand accurately the reasons for the development of these new functions in currently context of presidential democracies crisis.O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a evolução histórica do impeachment, desde o seu surgimento, na Inglaterra, até a emergência das matrizes norte-americana e francesa, que, com variações, viriam a ser replicadas nas democracias presidencialistas e semipresidencialistas atuais. Com essa análise, procuramos oferecer subsídios para futuros estudos acerca da mutação ocorrida recentemente nesse instrumento, qual seja: o seu uso como arma política para interromper mandatos presidenciais, aos moldes da moção de desconfiança, própria dos sistemas parlamentaristas. Assim, procuramos dar fundamentos para a hipótese, sujeita a exames posteriores, de que esse desenvolvimento decorre de uma trajetória de adaptações evolutivas desse instituto às mudanças no ambiente político de cada tempo e lugar. Concluímos destacando a indispensabilidade da perspectiva histórico-institucional para o devido entendimento das novas funções adquiridas pelo impeachment vis-à-vis as crises das democracias presidencialistas contemporâneas.Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas2021-06-14info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.fgv.br/revdireitogv/article/view/84814Revista Direito GV; Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021): jan.-abr. (38); e2115Revista Direito GV; Vol. 17 Núm. 1 (2021): jan.-abr. (38); e2115Revista Direito GV; v. 17 n. 1 (2021): jan.-abr. (38); e21152317-6172reponame:Revista Direito GVinstname:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)instacron:FGVporhttps://periodicos.fgv.br/revdireitogv/article/view/84814/80263Augusto Rotta, ArthurPeres, Pauloinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2021-10-05T17:11:53Zoai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/84814Revistahttps://direitosp.fgv.br/publicacoes/revista/revista-direito-gvPRIhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||revistadireitogv@fgv.br|| catarina.barbieri@fgv.br2317-61721808-2432opendoar:2021-10-05T17:11:53Revista Direito GV - Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
Impeachment: história e evolução institucional
title Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
spellingShingle Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
Augusto Rotta, Arthur
Impeachment
Institutional evolution
Presidencialism
Parliamentarism
Presidential democracies
Impeachment
Presidencialismo
Parlamentarismo
Democracias presidencialistas
Mandatos presidenciais
title_short Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
title_full Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
title_fullStr Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
title_full_unstemmed Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
title_sort Impeachment: History and a Case of Institutional Evolution
author Augusto Rotta, Arthur
author_facet Augusto Rotta, Arthur
Peres, Paulo
author_role author
author2 Peres, Paulo
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Augusto Rotta, Arthur
Peres, Paulo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Impeachment
Institutional evolution
Presidencialism
Parliamentarism
Presidential democracies
Impeachment
Presidencialismo
Parlamentarismo
Democracias presidencialistas
Mandatos presidenciais
topic Impeachment
Institutional evolution
Presidencialism
Parliamentarism
Presidential democracies
Impeachment
Presidencialismo
Parlamentarismo
Democracias presidencialistas
Mandatos presidenciais
description This paper aims to analyze the institutional evolution of impeachment, from its emergence in England to the occurrence of the American and French matrices, which would later be repeated, with variations, in current presidential and semipresidential democracies. The recent mutation in this instrument function, as we argue here, turned it into a political weapon at disposal of parliamentary oppositions against governments, by one hand, and by the other hand, converted it in a quite peculiar motion of distrust to oust presidents. Nonetheless, this mutation must be understood as another historical change that characterizes a long trajectory of evolutionary adaptations to fit the constant political environment modifications. We conclude by emphasizing the necessity of analyzing the impeachment institutional evolution history in order to understand accurately the reasons for the development of these new functions in currently context of presidential democracies crisis.
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