%0 Journal Article
%T Corrup£¿£¿o e reforma institucional no Brasil, 1988-2008
%A Pra£¿a
%A S¨¦rgio
%J Opini£¿o P¨²blica
%D 2011
%I Universidade Estadual de Campinas
%R 10.1590/S0104-62762011000100005
%X how do institutions foster corruption? how does the unveiling of corruption scandals affect institutional reform? this essay takes the brazilian budget process from 1988 onwards as a case study in an attempt to answer both these questions. in this period, two corruption scandals in the budget process were uncovered: the "budget dwarves" in 1993-1994 and "budget leeches" in 2006. the first scandal is a classic example of how institutional centralization, coupled with informality, results in corruption; the second scandal illustrates how corrupt actors work within a partially decentralized institutional scenario. both scandals resulted in partial, and somewhat effective, institutional reforms.
%K budget process
%K corruption
%K institutional change
%K legislative organization.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-62762011000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en