Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy

Cover
Title page
copyright page
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Ch1- Scandal and Corruption in Brazil
	Brazil’s Relevance to the Study and Practice of Anticorruption
	Plan of the Book
	Notes
Ch2- The Prevailing Elite Cartel Syndrome
	The Perilous Combination
	Historical Cases of Grand Corruption in Brazil
	Patterns of Wrongdoing in the Political Arena
	Figure 2.1 Federal Politicians Investigated or Indicted for Corruption or Criminality, 2002–2016 (in percent
	Notes
Ch3- The Incremental Approach to Accountability, 1985–2014
	Framework of Analysis: The Accountability Approach
	Mapping Accountability
	Table 3.1 Key Statutory Accountability Reforms, 1985–2014
	The Changing Shape of Accountability, 1985–2014
	The Paradox of Accountability Reforms
	Table 3.2 Evolving Patterns of Federal Accountability, 1985–2021
	Notes
Ch4- Lava Jato and the Big Push, 2014–2016
	Lava Jato Bursts onto the Scene
	The Double Shock of Lava Jato
	The Seismic Shock to Patterns of Dominance
	New National, Local, and Case-Specific Capacity
	A Conscientious Legal-Political Strategy
	Conclusion
	Notes
Ch5- The Unmaking of Lava Jato and Its Ramifications, 2016-2021
	The Arc of Lava Jato, 2014–2021
	The Reversal of Lava Jato
	Table 5.1 Indictments and Convictions in the Lava Jato Case, March 2014–November 2020
	Conclusion
	Notes
Ch6- Judicial Big Pushes in Large Democracies
	Big Push Reform
	Figure 6.1 Sum of Accountability Components
	Figure 6.2 Product of Accountability Components
	Judicial Policy Entrepreneurship and Anticorruption Big Pushes
	Perverse Effects of Judicial Policy Entrepreneurship
	The Challenge of Engineering an Equilibrium Shift in a Large Democracy
	Notes
Ch7- Learning from the Brazilian Experience
	A Shift in the Accountability Equilibrium?
	Brazil’s Lessons for the World
Appendix: Brazil’s Major Federal Corruption Scandals, 1985–2021
References
Index
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