1st Edition
U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil Legal Modernization in the Global South
Introduction: The Decline of Laissez-Faire, U.S. Power, and the Rise of the Social State
1 The Executive and Modernity: The "Revolt of Facts against the Law"
2 The Executive and the Judiciary: Constitutional Review and the Contours of Individual Freedom
3 The Executive and the Legislative: Normative Function and the Separation of Powers
4 The Executive and Legal Education: The "Role of Lawyers in a Changing Society"
5 The Decline of the Social State and the Rise of Neoliberalism: U.S. Power and the Brazilian Transition to the Global Order
Epilogue
Biography
Júlio Cattai is an historian of political ideas with interests in liberalism, law, Latin America, and Contemporary History. He also has an interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies (Research Institute, Brazil). He is the author of Guerra Fria e Propaganda: a U.S. Information Agency no Brasil (2019) and is currently researching the birth of neoliberalism in Brazil.
