@article{2019:peterke:mediendemo,
title = {Mediendemokratie und Verfassungskontrolle à brasileira: Zur Bundesintervention in Rio de Janeiro},
year = {2019},
note = {During carnival 2018, Brazilian mass media reported about a dramatic
increase of crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro. Former President
Michel Temer thereupon signed a decree that announced a federal
intervention into Rio de Janeiro´s competence for public security.
Being an historic precedent since Brazil´s return to democracy, the
decree subordinated this competence under the command of a general.
The present analysis shows that the constitutionality of this
extraordinary measure was not properly analyzed by the organs
responsible for its control and that this failure can be attributed to
media pressure from which the President and his supporters aptly knew
to take advantage of. The federal intervention is therefore both an
example for modern power politics under the conditions of a media
democracy and another evidence for the country´s institutional and
political crisis, which has aggravated since former President Dilma
Rousseff´s ouster through a dubious impeachment process.},
journal = {VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee},
pages = {90--114},
author = {Peterke, Sven},
volume = {52},
number = {1}
}