Prior to the Constitutional Court's decision in the Sidumo and another v Rustenburg Platinum Mines Ltd and others (2007) lACC 22 the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration applied the "reasonable employer"–test to determine whether a specific sanction, issued by an employer, was fair. The "reasonable employer"–test provided a lot of flexibility to employers to dismiss employees for misconduct, as employers' decisions to dismiss were "protected" from scrutiny by the CCMA. The Constitutional Court replaced the "reasonable employer"–test, which required a measure of deference to the decision of the employer, with that of the "reasonable decision maker"–test, which required an answer to the question whether the decision reached by the commissioner was one that a reasonable decision maker could not reach? This meant that in the event that the decision reached by the commissioner was one that a reasonable decision maker could not reach, that the decision of the commissioner will be overturned on review. The change in test from a "reasonable employer" to that of a "reasonable decision maker" had significant implications for employers who are instituting disciplinary action against their employees and subsequently imposing the sanction of dismissal, as commissioners are no longer allowed to "defer" to the decision imposed by employers. The Sidumo test also have implications for employers who are seeking to take decisions of the CCMA on review, as londo JP held in Fidelity Cash Management Service v CCMA 2008 29 ILJ 964 (LAC) that it will not be often that an arbitration award is found to be one that a reasonable decision maker could not have made. / Thesis (LL.M. (Labour Law))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

The New Labor Procedure Act has generated many changes in the structure of the labor process itself: It has turned from being written and unfocused to become now an oral and concentrated one. As a consequence, there's only once chance for convincing the Judge.This article covers the strategy to be followed in this new process, from the strategy itself to the allegations, in order to generate certainty in the judge whom will solve the case. / La Nueva Ley Procesal del Trabajo ha generado cambios muy amplios en la estructura delproceso mismo: Ha pasado de ser un proceso escrito y desconcentrado a convertirse en uno oral y concentrado. Como consecuencia de ello, existe una única oportunidad de convencer al Juez.El presente artículo abarca la estrategia que debe seguirse en este nuevo proceso, desde la formulación de la estrategia misma hasta los alegatos, a efectos de generar convicción en el juzgador que resolverá el caso.

The right of freedom of association, nowadays, is considered a fundamental right of workers. However, and though it has been internationallyrecognized in several   Covenants of the International Labor Organization, it has been a tendency among Latin American governments to limit the exercise of this freedom.In the present article, the author criticizes what he considers to be an excessive regulation of the exercise of the right of freedom of association by workers, present in almost every country in the region. These limitations are manifested through constitutional or legal restrictions to the formation of labor unions, union unity regimes and difficulties for the constitution of labor unions. In that way, he calls for the guarantee of the right of freedom of association for workers in Latin America. / El derecho a la libertad sindical es considerado, hoy en día, como un derecho fundamental del trabajador. Sin embargo, y a pesar de estar reconocido internacionalmente en diversos Convenios de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, ha sido una tendencia de los gobiernos latinoamericanos la limitación del ejercicio de la libertad sindical.En el presente artículo, el autor hace una crítica a lo que él considera una excesiva regulación del ejercicio de la libertad sindical presente en casi todos los ordenamientos jurídicos de la región. Estas limitaciones se manifestarían a través de restricciones constitucionales o legales a la formación de sindicatos, regímenes de unicidad sindical y trabas a la constitución de los mismos. De ese modo, hace un necesario llamado a la garantía del derecho a la libertad sindical en Latinoamérica.

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The last and current moment, focuses its efforts to the effective question of participation. During this period, many participation institutions (PIs) was analyzed and evaluated, however, the research about Public Hearings was rare. Based in the literature balance, this dissertation proposed to analyze Public Hearings, in the municipality of Araraquara-SP( Brazil), that was made throughout the revision process of the Master Plan of this city in 2013. The research point that the hearings, because of yours advisory character, worked as debate environments, but not as a political instrument of propositions and decisions. In addition, this Public Hearings operate as a subordinate participation instrument of government authority, because is that one who is able to incorporate or reject submitted suggestions by the population in this environment. / On the traversed course through the literature about institutional participation, it is possible to point distinct moments to deal with. In this dissertation was recovered the discussion approached by Carlos Estevam Martins, that in the end of the eighties and begin of nineties, bring forward the participation theme into the theory of the State and highlighted the relationship of participation and representation in this context. Following, we brought to the debate inspired research by the Habermasian theory, that pointed to an enthusiasm with the new forms of institutional participation. Subsenquently, research showed that was a large disparity between empiric bases and normative expectations in the literature until then. The last and current moment, focuses its efforts to the effective question of participation. During this period, many participation institutions (PIs) was analyzed and evaluated, however, the research about Public Hearings was rare. Based in the literature balance, this dissertation proposed to analyze Public Hearings, in the municipality of Araraquara-SP( Brazil), that was made throughout the revision process of the Master Plan of this city in 2013. The research point that the hearings, because of yours advisory character, worked as debate environments, but not as a political instrument of propositions and decisions. In addition, this Public Hearings operate as a subordinate participation instrument of government authority, because is that one who is able to incorporate or reject submitted suggestions by the population in this environment. / On the traversed course through the literature about institutional participation, it is possible to point distinct moments to deal with. In this dissertation was recovered the discussion approached by Carlos Estevam Martins, that in the end of the eighties and begin of nineties, bring forward the participation theme into the theory of the State and highlighted the relationship of participation and representation in this context. Following, we brought to the debate inspired research by the Habermasian theory, that pointed to an enthusiasm with the new forms of institutional participation. Subsenquently, research showed that was a large disparity between empiric bases and normative expectations in the literature until then. The last and current moment, focuses its efforts to the effective question of participation. During this period, many participation institutions (PIs) was analyzed and evaluated, however, the research about Public Hearings was rare. Based in the literature balance, this dissertation proposed to analyze Public Hearings, in the municipality of Araraquara-SP( Brazil), that was made throughout the revision process of the Master Plan of this city in 2013. The research point that the hearings, because of yours advisory character, worked as debate environments, but not as a political instrument of propositions and decisions. In addition, this Public Hearings operate as a subordinate participation instrument of government authority, because is that one who is able to incorporate or reject submitted suggestions by the population in this environment. / No transcurso percorrido pela literatura sobre o tema da participação institucional é possível demarcar momentos distintos de abordagens. Neste trabalho recuperamos a discussão suscitada por Carlos Estevam Martins, que já no final da década de oitenta e início dos anos noventa, trouxe a temática da participação para dentro de uma teoria do Estado e destacou a relação entre participação e representação. Na sequência trouxemos ao debate os trabalhos inspirados pela teoria habermasiana que apontavam para um entusiasmo com as novas formas de participação institucional. Passada essa fase, as pesquisas começaram a mostrar a disparidade que havia entre os dados empíricos e as expectativas normativas presentes na literatura de até então. O último e atual momento centra seus esforços na questão da efetividade da participação. Durante esse período diversas instituições participativas (IPs) foram analisadas e avaliadas, no entanto, raros foram os trabalhos que se debruçaram sobre as Audiências Públicas. Com base no balanço da literatura, essa dissertação se propôs a analisar as Audiências Públicas no município de Araraquara-SP realizadas durante o processo de revisão do Plano Diretor da cidade em 2013. A pesquisa indica que as audiências, por seu caráter consultivo, funcionaram como espaços de discussões, mas não como instrumento de proposições e decisões políticas. Além do mais, caracterizam-se como um instrumento de participação com alta dependência do poder público, já que somente à ele compete incorporar ou rejeitar as sugestões apresentadas pela população neste espaço. / No transcurso percorrido pela literatura sobre o tema da participação institucional é possível demarcar momentos distintos de abordagens. Neste trabalho recuperamos a discussão suscitada por Carlos Estevam Martins, que já no final da década de oitenta e início dos anos noventa, trouxe a temática da participação para dentro de uma teoria do Estado e destacou a relação entre participação e representação. Na sequência trouxemos ao debate os trabalhos inspirados pela teoria habermasiana que apontavam para um entusiasmo com as novas formas de participação institucional. Passada essa fase, as pesquisas começaram a mostrar a disparidade que havia entre os dados empíricos e as expectativas normativas presentes na literatura de até então. O último e atual momento centra seus esforços na questão da efetividade da participação. Durante esse período diversas instituições participativas (IPs) foram analisadas e avaliadas, no entanto, raros foram os trabalhos que se debruçaram sobre as Audiências Públicas. Com base no balanço da literatura, essa dissertação se propôs a analisar as Audiências Públicas no município de Araraquara-SP realizadas durante o processo de revisão do Plano Diretor da cidade em 2013. A pesquisa indica que as audiências, por seu caráter consultivo, funcionaram como espaços de discussões, mas não como instrumento de proposições e decisões políticas. Além do mais, caracterizam-se como um instrumento de participação com alta dependência do poder público, já que somente à ele compete incorporar ou rejeitar as sugestões apresentadas pela população neste espaço. / No transcurso percorrido pela literatura sobre o tema da participação institucional é possível demarcar momentos distintos de abordagens. Neste trabalho recuperamos a discussão suscitada por Carlos Estevam Martins, que já no final da década de oitenta e início dos anos noventa, trouxe a temática da participação para dentro de uma teoria do Estado e destacou a relação entre participação e representação. Na sequência trouxemos ao debate os trabalhos inspirados pela teoria habermasiana que apontavam para um entusiasmo com as novas formas de participação institucional. Passada essa fase, as pesquisas começaram a mostrar a disparidade que havia entre os dados empíricos e as expectativas normativas presentes na literatura de até então. O último e atual momento centra seus esforços na questão da efetividade da participação. Durante esse período diversas instituições participativas (IPs) foram analisadas e avaliadas, no entanto, raros foram os trabalhos que se debruçaram sobre as Audiências Públicas. Com base no balanço da literatura, essa dissertação se propôs a analisar as Audiências Públicas no município de Araraquara-SP realizadas durante o processo de revisão do Plano Diretor da cidade em 2013. A pesquisa indica que as audiências, por seu caráter consultivo, funcionaram como espaços de discussões, mas não como instrumento de proposições e decisões políticas. Além do mais, caracterizam-se como um instrumento de participação com alta dependência do poder público, já que somente à ele compete incorporar ou rejeitar as sugestões apresentadas pela população neste espaço.

Esta pesquisa pretende, no contexto da expansão do protagonismo judicial (principalmente sobre o aspecto da judicialização das políticas públicas), estudar as audiências públicas realizadas pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal e seus efeitos na realização do direito à saúde que, por ser um direito social, se concretiza, principalmente, por meio de políticas públicas. O objetivo é verificar se as audiências públicas realizadas sobre o tema (audiências sobre a judicialização da saúde, sobre o programa Mais Médicos e sobre a internação com diferença de classe no SUS) foram satisfatórias no sentido de serem capazes de criar uma sistemática de atuação para o Poder Judiciário nos casos que envolvem o controle de políticas públicas de saúde. Para tanto, realizamos a análise de obras teóricas sobre a judicialização dos conflitos, o estudo de casos concretos envolvendo a efetivação da saúde e dividimos a dissertação em quatro partes. Na primeira parte (capítulo um), abordaremos os limites metodológicos do direito positivo tradicional no que se refere à efetivação dos direitos sociais, no contexto da expansão do protagonismo judicial e da ascensão do neoconstitucionalismo, apontando como reflexo a estes desafios a institucionalização das audiências públicas. No segundo capítulo trataremos do papel que as audiências públicas assumiram no STF, destacando de forma crítica a apropriação do instituto como um canal de diálogo democrático com a sociedade civil, asseverando que sua utilização é discricionária, pontual e seletiva, atendendo assim, principalmente, a uma busca por maior legitimidade decisória. No terceiro capítulo, tendo em vista as dificuldades inerentes para a efetivação do direito à saúde e o caráter limitado que as audiências públicas assumiram junto à Corte Suprema, analisaremos os efeitos do instituto na criação do que poderíamos chamar de política judiciária de saúde. Por fim, no quarto capítulo, apontaremos para caminhos que visam a superação da lógica compensatória e individualista da aplicação do direito à saúde, por meio da valorização de um verdadeiro diálogo do Judiciário com a sociedade civil, alcançada somente com a realização de audiências públicas verdadeiramente deliberativas. / In the context of the expansion of judicial protagonism (especially on the aspect of judicialization of public policies), this research aims to study the Supreme Court public hearings and the effects on social rights awereness. The goal is to verify if the public hearings regarding \"judicalization of health,\", \"Mais Médicos\" program and \"admission to differences classes in the SUS\", were able to create a pattern of the Judiciary acting in cases involving control of public health policies satisfactorily. The research compreends the analysis of theoretical works on the judicialization of conflicts, case studies involving the effectiveness of health and is divided in four parts. On the first chapter the analysis will be on the methodological limits of traditional positive law, in the context of the expansion of the judicial role and neoconstitutionalism rise. On the second, the analysis will be on the role of the public hearing at the Supreme Court level. The emphases is critically pointing the institute\'s institucionalization as a democratic channel of dialogue with civil society, stressing that its use is discretionary, timely and selective. In the third chapter, given the difficulties inherent to the application of the right to health and the limited nature that the public hearings have taken by the Supreme Court, we will analyze the effects of public hearings in creating what we might call \"judicial policy of health\" . Finally, in the fourth chapter, we will point to ways to overcome the compensatory and individualistic logic of the application of the right to health through the promotion of a true judicial dialogue with civil society.

Rhetorical choices and strategies are central to democratic decision-making, especially regarding decisions on matters that are open for argumentation depending on perspective. The thesis considers public meetings on Swedish nuclear waste management as an example of rhetorical argumentation, specifically in relation to the project of finding a place for final deposition of the high-level spent nuclear fuel – with local geological investigation as a critical part of that project. Project managers have met with other organizations such as protest groups, associations of experts and authorities on several occasions, mainly through local and national hearings. The thesis is guided by a research question regarding the most salient challenges to a resilient rhetorical dialogue for nuclear waste management. The concept of rhetorical dialogue is applied in two ways. Firstly to explain the lack of dialogue that is experienced by participants despite arrangements to reach consensus-oriented dialogue in the Habermasian sense. Secondly in a discussion of rhetorical relations that might explain ambiguity in participants’ interpretations of each other. Three meetings are compared: two local meetings at sites of geological investigation (Kynnefjäll 1979 and Kolsjön 1985) and one national meeting held in Stockholm in 2008. Research materials have been collected from the archives of participating organizations and from interviews with participants. Analyses of these materials are combined with a rhetorical analysis of meeting recordings, with a specific focus on question-reply argumentation. One main conclusion is that the principal rhetorical challenges concern the roles of participants in relation to the rhetorical situation, the establishment of rhetorical genre in the format of hearings, and inclusion of relevant perspectives in the early project phase.

This thesis examines two organizational strategies employed for influencing American environmental policy with considerations to the "power elite" and "pluralist" models of policy control. Using a data set comprised of 379 organizations derived from US congressional hearings on climate change policy between 1976 and 2006, I find that industrial corporations conceal the public footprint of their involvement by financially encouraging "independent" research centers to provide favorable testimony. Meanwhile, nonprofit organizations are more likely to be co-represented by shared experts, a resource that is strategically shared for political gain. These findings provide some circumscribed support for both the power elite and pluralist models of organizational influence: the organization of power elites has a disproportionate amount of resources in a system that provides an arena for competing values and goals. Implications for understanding the organizational strategies towards congressional testimony as well as directions for future research are discussed based on these findings.

This thesis reviews the participation of Tłı̨chǫ women in the environmental assessment (EA) of the NICO project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited. Undertaken in 2012 in the Northwest Territories, this particular EA saw a precedential engagement between traditional knowledge and western science. Although this EA did not take a gendered approach, Tłı̨chǫ women’s stories and participation in the EA supported the Tłı̨chǫ Government’s interests throughout the review process and in the final mitigation measures. Predominate scholarship does not typically cast Indigenous women as participants in or beneficiaries of EAs and resource extraction projects. Results from this thesis support more recent scholarship that urges for an ethnographic and contextual analysis of each scenario. Ethnographic methods helped me to reveal the culturally specific, diverse and complex ways Tłı̨chǫ women participated and shared their stories in the Fortune Minerals EA. Tłı̨chǫ women’s stories, I found, were important and relevant to the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board’s assessment of the potential social and ecological impacts of the NICO project. I conclude that this EA is exemplary of Indigenous women’s agency within a regulatory process and offer suggestions for how to incorporate a gender-based analysis into future EA processes. / Graduate / 0733 / 0326 / janellek@uvic.ca

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:46:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MURILO TEIXEIRA COSTA.pdf: 719987 bytes, checksum: eca9173d0b9f6dbaf05c3cf0233259e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-16 / It is intended to develop in this dissertation research on the limits and possibilities of public hearings with experts in the abstract control of constitutionality. Public hearings may be defined as a participatory mechanism provided for in the process of abstract judicial review, in an advisory and non-binding, which create opportunities to direct contact between judge and expert, are intended to hear the varied opinions on certain submission to trial, supporting thus the performance of judicial functions. This dissertation intends to specifically investigate whether the opinions and knowledge exhibited at such events has, in fact, interfered in any way in the activity of constitutional interpretation and judgments of the Supreme Court. A question that should properly be made on the effectiveness of such hearings refers to the fact whether they really have contributed to a pluralistic and democratic opening in brazilian process of constitutional interpretation, or whether, conversely, has been used only to meet a mere ritualism or formalism, without any influence on the process of constitutional interpretation and decisions of the Supreme Court. This study acquires significant importance today when the Supreme Court has been constantly driven to solve extremely difficult and multidisciplinary causes, which has attracted the attention of public opinion and the community, noted that in some of these moments, the Supreme Court triggered the mechanism the public hearing and promoted the hearing of experts as well as other segments of society are directly interested in the affairs ended in actions such as associations and other representative groups. The brazilian legal literature is still lacking specific scientific papers on this subject, although I count on a big production about the institution of amicus curiae. The relevance of the subject of public hearings with experts in the abstract control of constitutionality can not be overlooked, since it interacts primarily with the issue pertaining to the active participation of citizens, groups, community, the public powers and public opinion in the process of constitutional interpretation. A set of ideas with this meaning has a central place in the work of the german jurist Peter Häberle, which advocates the adoption of constitutional hermeneutics criteria for an open society that is increasingly pluralistic. This research focuses on investigating also the public hearings with experts can really contribute to that court decisions are more fair and legitimate. Held, in addition to literature review, a case study of public hearing in the Supreme Court in 2007, ADI 3510 which discussed the issue pertaining to permission to use embryonic stem cells for research and therapy, specifically for check whether the opinion and knowledge of experts affect the positioning of the ministers of the Supreme Court in the trial of this action. One hopes, to investigate the dynamic that has been given to such public hearings, build a study of its limits and its possibilities. / Pretende-se nesta dissertação desenvolver uma pesquisa sobre os limites e as possibilidades das audiências públicas realizadas com especialistas no âmbito do controle abstrato de constitucionalidade. As audiências públicas podem ser definidas como um mecanismo participativo previsto no processo de controle abstrato de constitucionalidade, com caráter consultivo e não-vinculante, que, ao oportunizar o contato direto entre julgador e especialista, destinam-se a ouvir as mais variadas opiniões sobre determinada matéria submetida a julgamento, subsidiando, dessa forma, o desempenho da função jurisdicional. Esta dissertação pretende especialmente investigar se as opiniões e os conhecimentos exposto em tais eventos tem, de fato, interferido de alguma forma na atividade de interpretação constitucional e nos julgamentos do STF. Um questionamento que deve ser validamente formulado sobre a eficácia de tais audiências refere-se ao fato de saber se elas, realmente, tem contribuído para uma abertura pluralista e democrática no processo brasileiro de interpretação constitucional, ou se, pelo contrário, tem sido utilizadas apenas para atender a um mero ritualismo ou formalismo, sem qualquer influência no processo de interpretação constitucional e de tomada de decisões do STF. Esse estudo adquire significativa importância nos dias atuais em que o STF tem sido constantemente acionado para solucionar causas extremamente difíceis e multidisciplinares, as quais tem atraído a atenção da opinião pública e da comunidade, observado que, em alguns desses momentos, o STF acionou o mecanismo de realização de audiência pública e promoveu a oitiva de especialistas e também de outros segmentos da sociedade diretamente interessados nos assuntos encerrados nas ações, como associações e outros grupos de representação. A literatura jurídica brasileira ainda é carente de trabalhos científicos específicos sobre este tema, embora já conte com uma grande produção sobre o instituto do amicus curiae. A relevância da temática das audiências públicas com especialistas no âmbito do controle abstrato de constitucionalidade não pode passar despercebido, posto que interage fundamentalmente com a questão pertinente à participação ativa dos cidadãos, dos grupos, da comunidade, das potências públicas e da opinião pública no processo de interpretação constitucional. Um conjunto de idéias com esse significado tem lugar central na obra do jurista alemão Peter Häberle, o qual defende a adoção de critérios de hermenêutica constitucional abertos para uma sociedade cada vez mais pluralista. Esta pesquisa preocupa-se em investigar também se as audiências públicas com especialistas podem realmente contribuir para que as decisões judiciais sejam mais justas e legítimas. Realiza-se, além da revisão da literatura, um estudo de caso da audiência pública realizada no STF, em 2007, na ADI 3510 que debateu a questão pertinente à permissão do uso de células-tronco embrionárias para fins de pesquisas e terapia, especificamente para conferir se a opinião e o conhecimento dos especialistas influenciaram o posicionamento dos ministros do STF no julgamento desta ação. Almeja-se, ao pesquisar a dinâmica que tem sido conferida a tais audiências públicas, construir um estudo sobre os seus limites e as suas possibilidades.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-09T11:21:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jadson Correia de Oliveira.pdf: 1878987 bytes, checksum: 5515e01300d00b1928c876ca0319f530 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-09T11:21:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jadson Correia de Oliveira.pdf: 1878987 bytes, checksum: 5515e01300d00b1928c876ca0319f530 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-24 / This thesis analyzes the establishment of a dialogical constitutional jurisdiction through public hearings, that is, the materialization of a constitution with the participation of other actors, in order to encourage the social participation in the Brazilian constitutional jurisdiction. The investigation begins by making a correlate study among the constitutionalist movements, the appearance of the first constitutions and the social participation in the interpretation of these constitutions. The thesis is developed through the constitutional models along with a strong social participation, especially the American and the Israeli ones, as well as through both the American popular constitutionalism and the dialogical constitutionalism, respectively. Both theories aim to remove the judicial protagonism of the constitutional interpretation, while at the same time they conceive an effectively political and constitutional growth society. Next, the thesis analyzes the New Latin American Constitutionalism, its historical milestones, characteristics and differences with Neo-constitutionalism. Special attention was given to the study of the Colombian, Venezuelan and Bolivian constitutions. In the Andean constitutionalist movement, the defense of Legal Pluralism and the Plurinational State stand out, since they propose the autonomy of the originating peoples before the modern State and the equivalence between both the origin state and the native rights of those originating peoples. Later, in a specific chapter, the thesis approaches the influence of the New Latin American Constitutionalism in Brazil and signals, as an alternative, the holding of public hearings by the STF - the Brazilian Supreme Court - making a study of the theme from Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Systems and the concept of Constitutional Patriotism defended by Habermas. The investigation points out that public hearings serve as an instrument of social participation able to allow the cognitive opening of constitutional jurisdiction in order to asimilate social expectations under the cloak of its own legal code. Thus, although the Brazilian constitution of 1988 is clearly neo-constitutionalist and multicultural, this does not mean that its implementation will not respect the anthropological and social characteristics of Brazil. It is concluded, then, that the strong social participation does not require the presence of a pluralism or only takes place in a Plurinational State, even because, like the Andean European states, they were formed by the linking up of several originating peoples, such as the case of Spain, without, however, idealizing the necessity of the characteristics pointed out by the proponents of the New Latin American Constitutionalism / A tese analisa o estabelecimento de uma jurisdição constitucional dialógica por meio da realização de audiências públicas, isto é, da concretização de uma constituição com a participação de outros atores, com vistas a fortalecer a participação social na jurisdição constitucional brasileira. A investigação inicia fazendo uma correlação entre os movimentos constitucionalistas, o surgimento das primeiras constituições e a participação social na interpretação das constituições. Avança para tratar dos modelos constitucionais que coadunam com uma forte participação social, em especial, o estadunidense e o israelense, através do constitucionalismo popular norte-americano e do constitucionalismo dialógico, respectivamente. Ambas as teorias procuram retirar o protagonismo judicial da interpretação constitucional, ao mesmo tempo em que idealizam uma sociedade efetivamente política e constitucionalmente, amadurecida. Em seguida, a tese analisa o Novo Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano, seus marcos históricos, características e diferenças com o Neoconstitucionalismo. Receberam especial atenção no estudo as constituições colombiana, venezuelana e boliviana. No movimento constitucionalista andino, destacam-se a defesa do Pluralismo Jurídico e do Estado Plurinacional, uma vez que propõem a autonomia dos povos originários perante o Estado e a equivalência entre o direito de origem estatal e o oriundo desses mesmos povos originários. Adiante, em capítulo específico, a tese aborda a influência do Novo Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano no Brasil e sinaliza, como alternativa, a realização de audiências públicas pelo STF, fazendo um estudo do tema a partir da Teoria dos Sistemas de Niklas Luhmann e do conceito de Patriotismo Constitucional defendido por Habermas. A investigação aponta que as audiências públicas servem como um instrumento de participação social aptas a permitir a abertura cognitiva da jurisdição constitucional a fim de absorver as expectativas sociais sob o manto do seu próprio código jurídico. Dessa forma, muito embora a constituição brasileira de 1988 seja nitidamente de traços neoconstitucionalistas e multicultural, isso não significa dizer que a sua concretização não respeitará características antropológicas e sociais do Brasil. Conclui-se, então, que a forte participação social não exige a presença de um pluralismo ou só se realiza num Estado Plurinacional, até mesmo porque, estados europeus, assim como os andinos, foram formados pela soma de vários povos originários, como é o caso da Espanha, sem, contudo, idealizarem a necessidade das características apontadas pelos defensores do Novo Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano