We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

In Brazil, the right to health has achieved relevance in policy debate, especially in the last two decades, due to the increase in the number of lawsuits lawsuits against the executive branch to ensure access to medicines, exams, hospitalizations, among other goods and health services. The...

This is a bibliometric and bibliographic study based on researches about Maria da Penha Law (Law no 11.343/2006) enforcement. It was developed from a literature review for a research project named O Poder Judiciário no enfrentamento à violência doméstica e familiar contra mulheres (CNJ;...

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify innovation models in the judiciary according to the current integrated theoretical approach for innovation in services. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a quantitative approach. The authors collected the data through a questionnaire...

This report lays out the work and performance of DG JUST in in 2018, the final full year before the end of the current Commission mandate. It covers a wide range of activities in the areas of civil and commercial justice, criminal justice, fundamental rights and the rule of law, Equality and...

In this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice system, as a strategy for securing the full benefits of legal agency to indigenous and other culturally distinct groups. I do so because what lies within the formal justice system...

The policies of DG Justice and Consumers (DG JUST) guarantee the fundamental rights and freedoms of EU citizens in a Union of rule of law and democracy as well as their rights to participate in the internal market. In 2017 the DG has continued to deliver on its work programme in a timely manner....