'Corruption control before and after Operation Car Wash': research seminar with Dr. Luciano da Ros at the University of Bologna

Professor Luciano da Ros will be speaking on corruption control at an exciting event in collaboration between the BIT-ACT project and the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna. The event takes place on the 30th of January at 17:30 in the Seminar Room of the Department of Economics in Bologna (Primo piano Piazza Scaravilli 2). 

 Titled "Corruption Control Before and After Operation Car Wash: The Brazilian Case in Comparative Perspective", the talk provides an overview of corruption control before, during and after Operation Car Wash in Brazil. It maps both the long-term and short-term trends of political accountability that allowed the operation to flourish and its consequences, providing a tentative prognosis of corruption control in Brazil, which seems to have regressed to patterns much before the emergence of the investigation.

Moving beyond the Brazilian case, da Ros tests the consequences of massive criminal accountability efforts such as the Car Wash for judicial independence. Based on a novel dataset called Heads of Government Convicted of Crimes (HGCC), he finds that the conviction of former presidents, prime ministers, or dictators is associated with a reduction in judicial independence and powers, suggesting that the dynamics of the Brazilian case are not unique.

About the speaker

Da Ros is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and co-author, with Matthew Taylor, of the book "Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy".

The event will also be online, the link to attend it is here (Meeting ID: 383 684 858 951 / Passcode: Jc5tMA)