White‐Collar Crime in South and Central America

Zysman-Quirós, Diego

doi:10.1002/9781118775004.ch23

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“…Therefore, the findings evidenced regarding contractors cannot be generalized to democracies with an institutional framework that enables competitive contracting processes and where their political influence is marginal. Meanwhile, cases like Odebrecht in different Latin American countries (Zysman‐Quirós, 2020) reveal the need to study the relationship between contractors and politicians and the possibility of generalizing the results evidenced in this study to other countries.…”

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Rethinking political competition: Contracts and nationally located linkages in Colombian municipalities (1988–2015)

Uribe

2022

Latin American Policy

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At the end of the twentieth century, Latin American states began processes of transition and democratic expansion. Two decades later, these processes seem to have been partially achieved through mostly competitive subnational governments in the region. Yet, some countries still show uncompetitive elections and restrictions to local and regional power. This study shows how the interaction between political and administrative decentralization conditions and competition vary in Colombian local municipalities. Using local electoral data and local numbers of contractors, it reveals that politicians at the national level and the number of local contractors are positively related to higher levels of political competition. These results evidence the importance of national political variables and show how administrative decentralization affects local electoral competition.

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Rethinking political competition: Contracts and nationally located linkages in Colombian municipalities (1988–2015)

Uribe

2022

Latin American Policy

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“…Like other countries in the region, Ecuador suffers from entrenched corruption and institutional weakness. 24 , 35 As an example, one of the largest international private-political corruption schemes in the region also took place in the country. 24 , 36 It involved the Odebrecht construction industry conglomerate, which operated for three decades engaging in bribes connected to the highest levels of many Latin American governments.…”

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“… 24 , 35 As an example, one of the largest international private-political corruption schemes in the region also took place in the country. 24 , 36 It involved the Odebrecht construction industry conglomerate, which operated for three decades engaging in bribes connected to the highest levels of many Latin American governments. 24 Correspondingly, studies have shown limited transparency of decision and policy making in Ecuador.…”

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“… 12 In many instances, transparency (essential to both accountability and the identification of potential conflicts of interest) seems lacking. 12 , 24 Given the research gap in the relationships between private interest and public health and nutrition policy, 24 it becomes crucial that the structures and mechanisms of influence by ultra-processed food industries are more transparent. 25 …”

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Governmental institutionalization of corporate influence on national nutrition policy and health: a case study of Ecuador

Torres,

Villalba,

López-Cevallos

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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas

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“…For example, consider the violent history of rubber extraction in the Amazon, massacres orchestrated by banana companies in Colombia and Central America, the involvement of mining companies in Pinochet's coup de etat and dictatorship in Chile. Furthermore, global connections are evident in cases of corruption like Odebrecht (Zysman‐Quiróz, 2019), oil extraction, deforestation of the Amazon, criminogenic dynamics created by NAFTA (Patten, 2018), and the establishment of a network of tax havens and offshore financial centers in the Caribbean 20…”

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

Sociology Compass

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The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state‐centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal‐capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

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White‐Collar Crime in South and Central America

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Rethinking political competition: Contracts and nationally located linkages in Colombian municipalities (1988–2015)

Rethinking political competition: Contracts and nationally located linkages in Colombian municipalities (1988–2015)

Governmental institutionalization of corporate influence on national nutrition policy and health: a case study of Ecuador

Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

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