Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns

Prosecutions in Italy, Brazil and Romania
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-36905-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies

This book offers a comparative analysis of cases of mass prosecutions for political corruption in Italy, Brazil, and Romania.

The book outlines how judicial showdowns with political corruption emerge, what consequences they create, and whether they can be considered legitimate judicial operations or coups orchestrated by political forces with the assistance of the judiciary. Due to the similarities exhibited in the legal, political, and economic spheres of the events, the book explores the Italian Mani Pulite, Brazilian Lava Jato, and Romanian judicial anti-corruption campaigns. These campaigns were simultaneously legal operations, narratives created by the media, and opportunities for the emergence of new political actors. The book demonstrates why judicial activity was a crucial tool for reducing and preventing corruption in these countries. In addition to investigating the key legal issues and narratives, the book explores the controversies of these campaigns and assesses whether they should be seen as judicial revolutions or cases of prosecutorial overreach.

Providing a holistic comparative assessment of judicial means as a tool for controlling corruption, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Corruption Studies, Law, Development Studies, and Political Science.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogic, Nedim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Corruption and How to Fight It 2.Emergence and the Drivers of Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns 3. Rule of Law Challenges in the Judicial Anti-Corruption Campaigns 4. Impact of the the Anti-corruption Campaigns 5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nedim Hogic is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the University of Oslo. He researches and teaches on matters of comparative law and politics. He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and Ph.D. from Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies.