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Inching Toward Accountability: The Evolution of Brazil's Anticorruption Institutions, 1985–2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sérgio Praça  and
Matthew M. Taylor
Sérgio Praça
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do ABC. sergiopraca0@gmail.com
Matthew M. Taylor
Affiliation:
School of International Service, American University. mtaylor@american.edu
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Abstract

This article analyzes the evolution of the network of Brazilian federal accountability institutions over the course of the past generation, between the transition to democracy and the end of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s second term. Substantively, the article charts the significant gains that have been made in accountability institutions. Theoretically, it evaluates the evolution of these institutions as a consequence of the distribution of rules, routines, roles, and resources across a larger institutional network, demonstrating that changes in the various bureaucratic agencies have mutually reinforced each other and generated autocatalytic processes of reform.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , Summer 2014 , pp. 27 - 48
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Copyright © University of Miami 2014

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