Ação civil pública e políticas públicas: implicações na tensão entre o Estado-Administrador e o Estado-Juiz

Abstract

The evolution of the State along history accompanied the necessities of the society ahead new relations. Also the position of the Courts ahead of concrete situations was modified during the time. The sprouting of new litigations and the conception of group rights influenced a new type of procedural relation: the collective guardianship. The advent of statutes regulating the subject in the Brazilian order had great merit in the treatment of the question, but the social dynamism was revealed faster that the legislative modifications. To deal with concrete and sensitive situations, the Courts had started to appreciate questions that originatingly would not be affect to it: the judicialization appears. The debate concerning this new position of the judge grows, mainly in the field of the public policies, where the State administrator sometimes acts inside of its margin of discricionarity. At the same time, the growth of the study of the fundamental rights puts in distinct sides a supposed lack of democratic legitimacy of the State-judge, e the pressing social necessity of jurisdictional intervention in limits situations, where the proper dignity of the human person is placed at risk. Subjects as the right to health, education and environment illustrate the dramatic face of the debate, and foment the reflection on the effectivity of the procedural instruments to the disposal of the collective guardianship, as well as the legitimacy and the limits that involve the implementation of public policies.