Citizens and their bots that sniff corruption: Using digital media to expose politicians who misuse public money

Fernanda Odilla and Clarissa Santos Veloso present at the 79th Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago.

  • Date: 07 APRIL 2022  from 18:30 to 20:00

  • Event location: Palmer House, Floor: 7th Floor, Sandburg 8, Chicago, USA - In presence and online event

  • Type: Conference

By examining two anticorruption bottom-up initiatives in Brazil, Fernanda Odilla and Clarisa Santos Veloso access the main constraints affecting and benefits of grassroots initiatives that pursue name and shame strategies by exposing politicians and publicizing their wrongdoings using technology in the article "Citizens and Their Bots that Sniff Corruption: Using Digital Media To Expose Politicians Who Misuse Public Money".

The authors will present their paper at the 79th MPSA Annual Conference. The event will happen in Chicago and online. The paper is part of the panel "Measures, Determinants, and Effects of Corruption in Latin America", chaired by Jesse Acevedo (University of Denver).

Check the program:

Opening

  • 06:30 pm | Jesse Acevedo, University of Denver

Individual Presentations

  • 06:35 pm | Citizens and Their Bots that Sniff Corruption: Using Digital Media To Expose Politicians Who Misuse Public Money - Fernanda Odilla, University of Bologna; Clarissa Santos Veloso, University of Bologna

  • 06:45 pm | Complaints Against the Civil Service, Public Opinion and Presidential Approval in Mexico 1994-2018 - Ricardo Román Roman Gómez Vilchis, Metropolitan Autonomous University

  • 06:55 pm | Corruption in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Case of Cuba - Lennier Lopez, Florida International University

  • 07:05 pm | The Long Trace of Oil Money: A Social Network Analysis of Corruption during the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela - Pablo C Hernandez Borges, Texas Tech University

  • 07:15 pm | Which Branch is More Corrupt? Corruption Perceptions in South America - Matthew Luis Gomez, Florida International University

  • Discussants

    • 07:25 pm | Jesse Acevedo, University of Denver and Aaron S. Erlich, McGill University

    Audience Participation

  • Audience participation will last for the remainder of the session