Ebook: Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy

"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

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: