Abstract
The present article has as background to present the theory of institutional dialogues as a pretended mechanism of improvement of the democratic formula, emphasizing the need to establish a dialogical relationship between the State powers, and as a specific goal expose the experiences of Canada and South Africa’s potentially useful for Brazil. Initially, it addresses and delimits the concept of institutional dialogue to demonstrate the possibility of a dialogical relationship between politics and law in the construction of the decision-making process and constitutional interpretation. In the following, he investigates his experience both in the Canadian institutional arrangement and in the recent and new positions of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Finally, concludes that institutional dialogues are facilitators instruments for overcoming blocks because they can create a qualified dialogue between State powers and also with segments of society, putting cracks in separation of powers often generated by model centralized in the judge to decide cases about public policies.
Keywords:
Institutional Dialogues; Separation of Powers; Dialogical Relation; Institutional Arrangements