Uncommon Transparency: The Supreme Court, Media Relations, and Public Opinion in Brazil

Ingram, Matthew C.

doi:10.1017/9781316672228.004

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“…An emerging strand of the comparative literature on courts examines why courts go public and the effect of transparency on public trust and legitimacy. So far, however, this literature has focused on democracies, particularly in Latin America (Staton 2010, Ingram 2017 and Europe (Grendstad 2017). Certainly, government transparency is associated with democracies because sharing information seems intuitively linked to responsive, accountable government.…”

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Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law

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Over the past five years, Chinese courts have placed tens of millions of court judgments online. We analyze the promise and pitfalls of using this remarkable new data source, highlighting the takeaways for readers who face similar issues using other collections of legal texts. Drawing on a dataset of 1,058,986 documents from Henan province, we first document problems with missing data and call on scholars to treat variation in court disclosure rates as an urgent research question. We then outline strategies to learn from a corpus that is vast and incomplete. Using a topic model of administrative litigation in Henan, we complicate the conventional wisdom that administrative lawsuits are an extension of contentious politics that give Chinese citizens an opportunity to challenge the state. Instead, we find a high prevalence of administrative cases that reflect an underlying dispute between two private parties, suggesting that administrative lawsuits often represent an attempt to enlist help from the state resolving a civil dispute.

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Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law

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“…The STF presents a particularly relevant setting to study these questions. The Court operates with open deliberations, and its judges interact with each other in real time and before the public-an arrangement that makes the Brazilian system a singular one from a comparative perspective (e.g., Ingram, 2017). In this paper, with an extended database, we tackle similar questions to the ones raised by Jacobi and Schweers, focusing on gender and interruptions during STF deliberations.…”

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“…15 All deliberations in the STF are public. Since 2002, deliberations in the plenary court are broadcast live on the official channel TV Justiça (and, since 2006, on the Court's official YouTube channel as well) (e.g., Ingram, 2017). This means that, at least officially, there is no formal opportunity for the judges to discuss a case in private.…”

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“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court

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Cesario Alvim,

Nogueira

et al. 2024

J Empirical Legal Studies

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In this paper, we examine a database containing court rulings and debates (acórdãos) of the Brazilian Supreme Court (“STF”) spanning from 1999 to 2018. Our objective is to analyze the relationship between gender and how judges behave when interacting with each other. Specifically, we investigate whether female judges are more likely to be interrupted by their colleagues during oral debates. Our data are built on real‐time public interactions between the judges, as recorded in the Court's transcripts. The results show that female STF judges are interrupted more often than their male counterparts. While male judges display no specific effects, all three female judges in our data display a very significant and positive probability of being interrupted, as compared to their male colleagues participating in the same deliberations. These results show that, even in institutions designed to protect rights of political minorities, including women, gender dynamics, stereotypes and hierarchies can affect the functioning of courts in visible ways, with potential impacts on the rest of the judiciary and the legal profession. They also suggest that merely increasing the number of female judges, without addressing underlying gender dynamics and procedural rules in the judicial decision‐making process, is insufficient to tackle the disadvantages women face within those institutions.

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Uncommon Transparency: The Supreme Court, Media Relations, and Public Opinion in Brazil

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law

Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law

“They don't let us speak”: Gender, collegiality, and interruptions in deliberations in the Brazilian Supreme Court

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