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6 - Anti-corruption Investigations

Case Studies from Brazil and South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

Mark Tushnet
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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During the late twentieth century, first policy-makers, then students of constitutionalism, came to understand that pervasive corruption undermines constitutional democracy.1 Corruption at the street level – police officers who respond to complaints and civil servants who process claims only after receiving bribes – undermines citizen confidence that their government can deliver anything worthwhile.2 Corruption at the highest levels, this chapter’s focus, breaks the connection between elections and policy outcomes. By the late twentieth century, the project of fighting corruption had become an important component in democracy promotion and, by extension, in constitutional design.

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The New Fourth Branch
Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy
, pp. 97 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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