Media Leaks and Corruption in Brazil - The Infostorm of Impeachment and the Lava-Jato Scandal

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The Media System and Political Journalism of Brazil 3. Leaks and their Effect in Media and on Politics 4. Lawfare and the Judiciary-Political Relations during the Lava-Jato Corruption Scandal 5. The Informational Cascades of Impeachment and the Lava-Jato Scandal 6. Coup d’état or Constitutional Act?

About the author

Mads Bjelke Damgaard is PhD fellow in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has previously worked at the University of Southern Denmark as well as the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Science of Religions Section at the University of Copenhagen. When living in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, he was visiting PhD fellow with the Universidade de Brasília and has collaborated with the media research group LEMEP (Laboratório de Estudos de Mídia e Esfera Pública) of the state university UERJ in Rio. He has previously published on corruption and Brazil in the King’s College-based journal Brasiliana and the journal Ephemera – Theory & Politics in Society.

Summary

Combining a quantitative view of the media sphere with case studies of the leaks, legal actions and alliances forming and breaking in the Brazilian Congress, the author demonstrates that the media’s attention to leaks and investigations of corruption paved the way for Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment.

Product details

• Authors: Mads Bjelke Damgaard, Mads Bjelke (Copenhagen University Damgaard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666040
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66604-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Regional Studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies