Anticorruption Institutional Improvements and Operation Car Wash

Abstract

The task of understanding how corruption occurs within the political and economic systems involves an ambitious undertaking that cuts across different branches of knowledge and different approaches, ranging from the definition of the phenomenon itself and its causes to the proposition of institutional frames designed to curb or discourage corrupt behavior. The most recent researches on corruption highlight that, since the end of the 1970s, there has been a significant increase in academic production that has come to treat corruption as a harmful phenomenon that imposes bottlenecks on economic development.