Citizens against the State: the riddle of high impact, low functionality courts in Brazil

The Brazilian federal judiciary offers an interesting riddle to scholars of judicial politics and policy change. While the courts have played a major policy role over the past two decades, constraining and altering federal policy across a range of subjects, the court system has simultaneously been labeled "dysfunctional." This paper investigates this riddle: a system plagued by major systemic flaws in its day-to-day operations, which nonetheless still manages to exert a powerful influence on public policy in Brazil. I adopt a new institutional perspective, focusing on how the institutional and normative structure within which judges and other legal actors operate affects policy outcomes.

Receipt for building materials bought by Samuel Woodruff for E. Riddle, signed by Mr. Kiddee

Receipt for building materials bought by Samuel Woodruff for E. Riddle, signed by Mr. Kiddee, Aug. 5, 1876.

Receipt from E. Riddle and Sons, Contractors of Masonry, St. Catharines

Receipt from E. Riddle and Sons, Contractors of Masonry, St. Catharines for work done, Mar. 13, 1887.

On the riddle of the moving thermometers

The assumption that equilibrium is a Lorentz invariant notion, associated with the measurements of the earth's velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background, strongly suggest that the temperature of a system seen from a moving frame is higher than the temperature seen from the rest frame. © 1992.

The substance of The riddle of the universe,

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Biology; the key to the riddle of cancer.

Bibliography: p. 287-312.

Solving the farm riddle,

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The solving of the world-riddle : or the rational grounds of theism. (The metaphysics of the subject clarified, and in a nutshell) /

"Revised and reprinted from the Watchman-examiner."

The riddle of nearer Asia,

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The riddle of the night : being the record of a singular adventure of that remarkable detective genius, Hamilton Cleek, the man of the forty faces, once known to the police as the Vanishing Cracksman /

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The unsolved riddle of social justice,

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Life and matter; a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the universe", by Sir Oliver Lodge

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Russia is no riddle,

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Woman is a riddle : a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields /

According to Johnson, Savage wrote the play, which he afterwards turned over to Bullock who altered it slightly and produced it as his own; but Baker claims that both authors took it from a translation of Calderón's "La dama duende" by Mrs. Price. Cf. Johnson's Life of Savage; Baker's Biog. dram.; Dict. nat. biog.