Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: hegemonic preservation

  • Preservationist Constitutional Amendments and the Rise of Antipolitics in Brazil

    —Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Ran Hirschl, in his book Towards Juristocracy, raises a very thorough argument on how political, economic, and judicial elites have strategically used Supreme Courts as “a form of self-interested hegemonic preservation.”[1] As a way of keeping many of their interests virtually untouched for years, especially in democratic and pluralistic…