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Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos is Associate Professor and Fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America and The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America. Paula Muñoz is Associate Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico. She is the author of Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties are Weak. Nara Pavão is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Her research focuses on political behavior and comparative politics. Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo is a DPhil student in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a member of Nuffield College. Her research focuses on the study of corruption and political behavior.
'Through a masterful, multi-method analysis of the origins and effects of the Lava Jato prosecutions in Latin America, this book demonstrates that institutional reforms are necessary but not sufficient to generate anti-corruption crusades, and that the decisions made by judges and prosecutors in the investigatory process are crucial to their ultimate success or failure.' Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota 'Anyone interested in how we combat or control political corruption should read Prosecutors, Voters, and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America! The book is a tour-de-force analysis of both the institutional foundations of a prosecutor-driven anticorruption crusade and the downstream effects of the crusade's success on public opinion. Paradoxically, rather than enhancing trust in institutions, the successful exposure and punishment of grand political corruption in Latin America increased political cynicism and eventually transformed corruption from a valence issue into a deeply politicized lightning rod of polarization. The book should appeal to a much broader audience than Latin American politics or judicial politics specialists as it helps us understand not only the highly consequential case of Lava Jato and the struggle to uphold the rule of law, but also the dynamics of horizontal accountability and the vagaries of trust in democratic institutions.' Maria Popova, McGill University 'Lava Jato was perhaps the most important political event of the past decade in Brazil and in much of Latin America. While the story has been told and retold by journalists and pundits, Prosecutors, Voters, and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America stands apart for its systematic and rigorous comparative approach. The authors' offer us new and nuanced insights into how and why prosecutors in some countries were able to leverage previous legal reforms and made tactical decisions that enabled them to successfully carry out their ambitious investigative efforts.' Cesar Zucco, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
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