Brazil features regularly in global comparisons of large developing economies. Yet since the 1980s, the country has been caught in a low-level equilibrium, marked by lackluster growth and destructive inequality. One cause is the country's enduring commitment to a set of ideas and institutions...

Scholars of comparative judicial politics have sought to explain judicial decision-making from a number of perspectives, highlighting the causal import of judges' and plaintiffs' preferences, formal and informal institutional structures, judges' strategic considerations, and law and legal...