Social constitutionalism in a compared perspective: under which conditions are social rights constitutionalized?

• Grant number: 21/13511-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2023
• End date: June 30, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science
• Principal Investigator: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa
• Grantee: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Cláudio Gonçalves Couto ; Daniel Wei Liang Wang ; Denilson Bandeira Coêlho ; Marcelo Santos ; Michael Riegner Oliveira ; Milton Lahuerta ; Pedro José Floriano Ribeiro ; Simone Diniz ; Zachary Elkins
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/11393-0 - The Constitutionalization of the Right to Food, BP.IC; 24/20831-9 - Diffusion of constitutional social rights, BP.DD; 24/20832-5 - The lobbying mechanisms of influence on the constitutionalization of social rights in the Venezuelan drafting process of 1999, BP.MS; + associated scholarships 24/15803-6 - The access to the internet as a condition for the realization of human rights, BP.IC; 24/00109-7 - In Search of Citizenship: human rights and constitutions, why do they matter?, BP.JC; 24/00108-0 - In Search of Citizenship: human rights and constitutions, why do they matter?, BP.JC; 24/01895-6 - New Social Rights and Identity Politics - Race, Indigenous Peoples, and Other Minorities, BP.MS; 24/00034-7 - The origin and development of Education as a constitutional right, BP.IC; 23/13919-4 - Measuring Social Rights: A Quantitative Approach, BP.IC; 23/12484-4 - The Constitutionaolization of the Right to Water, BP.IC; 23/13254-2 - Constitutional Models of Health Care, BP.IC; 23/08318-1 - Social constitutionalism in a compared perspective: under which conditions are social rights constitutionalized?, BP.JP - associated scholarships

Abstract

This project's aim is to structure, develop and empirically apply models of investigation in the areas of (1) compared constitutionalism and (2) lobbying influence and, especially, in (3) an approach that comprehends the relation between the two fields as a predictor of the probability of constitutionalization of social and economics rights (CSR), through the nucleation of a research group into the FCLAR-Unesp. This objective is enabled by the application of the Constitutional Social Score Model (CSSM), an analytical tool that inspires in and advances on methodological models of constitutional comparison developed by the researchers and research's institutions that lead the global debate on the field, especially by the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP), which will integrate this project. The methodological applications of these models are responsible for a determinant advancement of this research agenda in the last years, notably in large-N analyses. As a consequence of the methodological developments, we propose to install an unprecedented line of research in Brazil, responsible for (1) the empirical analysis of the relation between lobby and CSR, especially in South American constitutional drafting processes, through the combination of the process tracing and gauging the preferences approaches (overcoming the difficulty in estimating the lobby influence); (2) amplification of the understanding on the political and social process of human rights' (liberal and social) constitutionalization; (3) developing of the incipient field of constitutional diffusion (currently concentrated in comparative studies of few cases - small-N), through a new research design of large-N comparative politics. (AU)