Jurisdição e precedente eleitoral : discurso e discricionariedade

Abstract

The role of jurisdiction in the actual execution of Rule of Law political projects has gone through great transformations along the recent historical process, and electoral precedents occupy a specially significant place in this process. When conceived as the cultural and evolutionary juridical and political actual experience through its necessary interactions with external factors such as the Rule of Law, the constitutionalism, justice and democratic institutions, the functions of jurisdiction was freed from its restricting ties to some of the certainties and dogmas of the past. It is in this intellectual environment with its own peculiarities that the precedent as well as the judicial discourse may reveal their usefulness in Brazilian electoral law. This is the main descriptive purpose of this work, as a case study