This is a study of developmentalism as the ideology that guides economic policy in Brazil. The focus is the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. The main argument is that, contrary to what most of the ...

In the frame of an international debate which states that citizen participation in external oversight contributes to improving control performed by supreme audit institutions, to strengthen government accountability and ...

This thesis comprehensively reviews literature pertaining to police corruption in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. In doing so, it organizes and synthesizes contemporary discourse on this topic and suggests areas for ...

This thesis analyzes the evolution of urban civil-society mobilization in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship, in order to understand the astounding changes in the main features of mass protests from May 2013 ...

With greater democratization and economic globalization throughout the modern world, increasing concern over the prevalence of the corruption has translated into policy action within the international sphere. Thus, ...