Indigenous Self-Government: A Comparative Study Between Brazil and Bolivia
Abstract:This paper aims to investigate if the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 guarantees the prerogative of self-government to indigenous communities, according to the canons of the new Latin American constitutionalism present in the Constitution of Bolivia. Then, a deductive and comparative study was carried out with documental and bibliographical analysis, utilizing descriptive statistics to perform comparative analyses. The results show that, when comparing the constitutional models of Brazil and Bolivia, it is poss… Show more
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