The Troubling Strength of Brazilian Institutions in the Face of Scandal

Matthew M. Taylor

《Taiwan Journal of Democracy》 15卷1期 (2019/07) Pp. 91-111

摘要

Anticorruption efforts have played an important role in Brazilian democracy's turmoil over the past half-decade, which culminated in the October 2018 election of conservative firebrand Jair Bolsonaro. Partly in consequence of the Lava Jato investigations, there has been turnover in key political actors and a discrediting of prominent organizations. Paradoxically, though, the multiple crises of recent years do not appear to have significantly altered the underlying institutions that structure Brazilian democracy: adherence to the 1988 Constitution; the developmental bias of economic policy making; the coalitional presidential system; judicial inoperancy, especially as it regards wrongdoing in the political sphere; and robust bureaucratic autonomy, particularly in the anticorruption arena. In the absence of a clear consensus on the desired direction of reforms, the institutions that have governed Brazilian democracy for the past generation are likely to persist, with potentially grave consequences for normative commitments to the democratic regime.

關鍵字

Brazil ； corruption ； democracy ； institutions ； Lava Jato

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