Ivan Juca

My research focuses on corruption, clientelism, legislative assemblies and political parties. Before my dissertation, I investigated how corruption and clientelism affects accountability in Brazil, from a comparative perspective. I'm also interested in understanding the effectiveness of accountability and transparency enhancing reforms. My dissertation builds on my preceding work by investigating how clientelism and corruption affect legislative parties in Brazil. I show how conventional theories of legislative parties don't apply to most of the developing world where clientelism is pervasive. I argue that clientelism strengthens legislative party leaders and my findings have important normative implication for the Brazilian case specifically and for legislative theories in general.