Informação, Accountability, Corrupção à How the interaction between ideology and salience of corruption drives electoral accountability in Brazil? This paper will study if left-wing politicians are more electorally punished for being corrupt than right-wing ones in Brazil’s municipal elections. The turmoil period between the July 2013 protests and President Dilma Rousseff’s leaving office in August 2016 portrayed corruption as the main topic of discussion for Brazil’s population and left-wing politicians were portrayed as the main characters. Does increasing the salience and focusing this narrative on one ideology increases electoral accountability? I will study this by running a Difference-in-Differences model encompassing Brazilian municipalities from 2004 to 2016, which will test if (i) left-wing politicians are more electorally punished for being corrupt and if (ii) the increase in salience leads to an increase in electoral accountability. The findings suggest that left-wing politicians have more chances of being elected if previously listed by the TCU compared to non-left-wing ones.
Gênero e Corrupção à How does gender political inequality level impact gender and corruption dynamics? A Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) encompassing Brazilian municipal elections from 2000 to 2016 test if female mayors in municipalities with higher levels of gender political inequality are less prone to be involved in corruption cases. Higher reputational costs faced by female mayors due to gender political inequality and prejudice might reduce their chances of getting
involved in illegal and corrupt activity, mainly in municipalities where inequality is higher. Thus, the negative relationship between female mayors and corruption is context-dependent. The chapter explores whether a higher prevalence of females in other local offices plays a role in mediating the relationship between female politicians and lower levels of corruption. The study finds that female mayors in Brazil are less prone to be involved in corruption. This relation is strongest when female representation in the local chamber is higher than average.