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Surviving Corruption in Brazil: Lula's and Dilma's Success Despite Corruption Allegations, and Its Consequences

"This article analyzes the continued popular support for Lula and Dilma in the face of multiple corruption allegations throughout their respective presidencies. What explains their ability to survive corruption? And what are the implications of this - at first sight - lack of electoral punishment for Brazilian democracy? In searching for answers to these questions, this article looks at four mechanisms that help explain the continued popularity of politicians amid allegations of corruption: the use of clientelism as payoffs, informational failures, the relevance of other issues, and rouba mas faz. By analyzing Lula's and Dilma's terms in office and their inopportune links to corruption, this article argues that the shifting strategies used to deal with corruption allegations effectively shifted the reputational costs of corruption away from individual political leaders and toward the Workers' Party and the political system as a whole. This finding emphasizes the mid- to long-term consequences of corruption scandals on political parties and democratic institutions, while also shedding light on the paradoxical relationship between corruption as a voting valence issue and continuing electoral support for politicians allegedly involved in corruption." (author's abstract)

Alternative title
Die Korruption in Brasilien überleben: Lulas und Dilmas Erfolg Korruptionsanschuldigungen zum Trotz und seine Konsequenzen
ISSN
1866-802X
Extent
Seite(n): 67-93
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 6(3)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Korruption
Brasilien
Präsident
Arbeiterpartei
Demokratie
Südamerika
Lateinamerika
Schwellenland
deskriptive Studie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Balán, Manuel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-7946
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Balán, Manuel

Time of origin

  • 2014

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