Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy
Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor | | ISBN: 978-1-62637-997-8 $35.00 |
| ISBN: 978-1-955055-19-2 $95.00
$35.00 |
| 2022/281 pages/LC: 2021036854 |
DESCRIPTION
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luciano Da Ros is assistant professor of political science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Matthew M. Taylor is associate professor of international relations at American University.
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.
- Appendix: Brazil's Major Federal Corruption Scandals (1985-2021).
"Essential reading for those who seek to understand the politics of corruption and anti-corruption, as well as Brazil's corresponding successes and failures in this realm." —Gregory Michener, Journal of Latin American Studies
"A nuanced, insightful, distinctive, and plausible reading of events. It represents an invaluable contribution to the literature.... Da Ros and Taylor offer a sober, and therefore welcome, assessment of Brazil's recent past and the challenges that undoubtedly lie ahead." —George Mészáros, Latin American Politics and Society
"An engagingly written and thoroughly researched investigation of the ongoing fight against grand corruption in Brazil, situated in comparative perspective to be of broad interest." —Matthew S. Winters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign