2020
DOI: 10.1111/jols.12250
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From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)

Abstract: Law and lawyers tend to be seen as either preferential victims of or key counterforces to rising illiberalism. Brazil offers a good testbed for these claims. Brazilian democracy has deteriorated considerably, as epitomized by the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Yet, since 2014, law and lawyers have become ever more central to Brazil's field of state power. As the anti‐corruption initiative Car Wash (Lava Jato) gained momentum, Brazilian judges and prosecutors were celebrated, locally and globally, as champ… Show more

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“…Costa was arrested, revealing a bigger corruption scheme at Petrobras including frauds in Petrobras contracts that benefited a cartel of construction companies, which, in turn, paid bribes and kickbacks to Petrobras officials, politicians, and political parties. Costa received his SUV from those payments (de Sa e Silva, 2020a; Moro, 2018).…”
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“…Costa was arrested, revealing a bigger corruption scheme at Petrobras including frauds in Petrobras contracts that benefited a cartel of construction companies, which, in turn, paid bribes and kickbacks to Petrobras officials, politicians, and political parties. Costa received his SUV from those payments (de Sa e Silva, 2020a; Moro, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In 2018, Lula was arrested and barred from running for the presidency, a contest he was leading. With Lula off the ballot, the winner was Bolsonaro, a former army captain and far‐right politician who favored military dictatorship and made outrageous remarks against women, Black people, and LGBTQ people (de Sa e Silva, 2020a).…”
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“…6.For a critical analysis of the roles played by members of the Car Wash Task Force in Brazil’s political crisis see, for example, de Sá e Silva 2020.…”
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