PP1036
Analítico de Periódico
BANERJEE, Mouli
Pathways of political narratives : populist rhetoric, the Supreme Court and the (im)balance of power / Mouli Banerjee
VRÜ. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, a.51 n.3 (2018), p.352-366
ORGANIZAÇÃO JUDICIÁRIA / Índia, SUPREMO TRIBUNAL / Índia, ÓRGÃOS JURISDICIONAIS / Índia, SEPARAÇÃO DE PODERES / Índia, PODER LEGISLATIVO / Índia, PODER JUDICIÁRIO / Índia
Using the January 2018 Press Conference by the four Supreme Court Justices as an entry point, the paper proposes that Parliamentary discourse, an oft-ignored pulse of the political narrative, is a relevant window into studying how the legislature perceives the judiciary, and the Supreme Court in particular. It attempts to analyse through various examples, how the institutions - the Supreme Court of India, and the Parliament of India, perceive themselves and therefore each other, assuming that in a rhetorical network of what constitutes a democracy, these intersubjective interactions between the institutions matter. Using the theoretical framework of discursive institutionalism, the paper attempts a discourse analysis of the symbolic and rhetorical relationship established between the Parliament as a symbolically representative institution and the Supreme Court of India, in order to decode whether the Supreme Court of India is (at all) in a crisis.