Brazilian Politics on Trial : Corruption and Reform under Democracy / Luciano Da Ros, Matthew M. Taylor

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Da Ros, Luciano, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Matthew M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization--Brazil.

Elite (Social sciences)--Brazil.

Government accountability--Brazil.

Judicial process--Political aspects--Brazil.

Political corruption--Brazil.

Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.

Brazil--Politics and government--2003-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

Brazil's democracy has repeatedly suffered major corruption scandals, despite numerous reforms designed to overcome entrenched patterns of illicit behavior. Why? What has caused corruption scandals to recur across some four decades of presidential administrations? And what are the implications of Brazil's experience for efforts to enhance accountability elsewhere? Addressing these questions, Matthew Taylor and Luciano Da Ros provide a framework for evaluating the bottlenecks to effective accountability in Brazil and analyze the successes and failures of anticorruption efforts from the early days of the democratic transition through the demise of the massive Lava Jato investigations.

Contents:

Scandal and Corruption in Brazil

The Prevailing Elite Cartel Syndrome

The Incremental Approach to Accountability, 1985-2014

Lava Jato and the Big Push, 2014-2016

The Unmaking of Lava Jato and Its Ramifications, 2016-2021

Judicial Big Pushes in Large Democracies

Learning from the Brazilian Experience.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Da Ros, Luciano Brazilian Politics on Trial

ISBN:

1-955055-19-X

OCLC:

1285370134