The Problem Is Not Politicization - Comparative lessons from judicial elections gone wrong in Germany and Brazil Platz Pereira, Diego Author aut (orcid)0009-0001-9615-4703 Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-05-29 eng
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 When judicial nominations fail, the instinct is to blame politicization. But the collapse of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf's candidacy for the German Federal Constitutional Court and the historic Senate rejection of Jorge Messias for Brazil's Supreme Court point to a different diagnosis. The problem did not lie in politics as such – but in the Brazilian intuition of “politicagem”: the subordination of judicial selection to short-term electoral performance. CC BY-SA 4.0 Platz Pereira, Diego BVerfG Brasilian Supreme Court Brasilien. Supremo Tribunal Federal | Rio de Janeiro; Brasília Brazil Brazilian Supreme Court Deutschland. Bundesverfassungsgericht | Karlsruhe German Federal Constitutional Court Politicization elections Brasilien. Supremo Tribunal Federal | Rio de Janeiro; Brasília Deutschland. Bundesverfassungsgericht | Karlsruhe 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/politicagem-court-elections/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/52af3ea37d761e31 260529 10.59704/52af3ea37d761e31 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)