Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America

The Case of Lava Jato

AvEzequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos,Paula Muñoz Chirinos

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Lava Jato, a transnational bribery case that started in Brazil and spread throughout Latin America, upended elections and collapsed governments. Why did the investigation gain momentum in some countries but not others? The book traces reforms that enhanced prosecutors' capacity to combat white-collar crime and shows that Lava Jato became a full-blown anti-corruption crusade where reforms were coupled with the creation of aggressive taskforces. For some, prosecutors' unconventional methods were necessary and justified. Others saw dangerous affronts to due process and democracy. Given these controversies, how did voters react to a once-in-a-generation attempt to clean politics? Can prosecutors trigger hope, conveying a message of possible regeneration? Or does aggressive prosecution erode the tacit consensus around the merits of anti-corruption? Prosecutors, Voters and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America is a study of the impact of accountability through criminalization, one that dissects the drivers and dilemmas of resolute transparency efforts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009329804

Utforska kategorier

Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter inom Juridik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos is Associate Professor and Fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America and The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America. Paula Muñoz is Associate Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico. She is the author of Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties are Weak. Nara Pavão is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Her research focuses on political behavior and comparative politics. Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo is a DPhil student in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a member of Nuffield College. Her research focuses on the study of corruption and political behavior.

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'Through a masterful, multi-method analysis of the origins and effects of the Lava Jato prosecutions in Latin America, this book demonstrates that institutional reforms are necessary but not sufficient to generate anti-corruption crusades, and that the decisions made by judges and prosecutors in the investigatory process are crucial to their ultimate success or failure.' Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: anti-Corruption crusades; Part I. Causes: 2. The drivers of prosecutorial zeal: institutional change and three 'Moments' (with stories from Brazil, Italy and Beyond); 3. Lava Jato in Peru: taking on the political and judicial establishments; 4. One crusade and two failed inquiries: Ecuador, Argentina and Mexico; Part II. Public: 5. Fighting corruption, curbing cynicism? Crusades, emotions and the future of politics; 6. Of cockroaches and superheroes: Talking about Lava Jato in Brazil and Peru; 7. Is prosecutorial zeal what partisans make of it? Survey evidence from Brazil; 8. Prosecutorial Trade-Offs and the precarity of hope: Survey evidence from Peru; Part III. Conclusions: 9. Theoretical lessons and a normative assessment; Bibliography; Index.