Corruption, Responsiveness, and Political Reform in (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

Corruption is a frequent problem associated with developing countries. Brazil is not an ex-ception; on the contrary, recent periods have been marked by major scandals. For the first time, president partisans were formally prosecuted and arrested because of corruption related crimes. The media played a central role in this process. In this paper, we examine the media role over legislative behavior of Brazilian senators during the period of the largest trial for corruption related crimes. We analyze the frequency of topics related to corruption on the media and how it affects speeches on the floor about corruption and political reform. Our hypothesis is that media influences parliamentary behavior. We use two original dataset with information about senator speeches between 1994 and 2014, and media data from Folha de São Paulo newspaper and Veja magazine.

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