Manoel Gehrke
@manoelgehrke.bsky.social
Political Scientist, FGV CEPESP / FAPESP Fellow
www.manoelgehrke.com
Political Accountability | Corruption | Threats to Democracy | Money & Politics | Courts and Politics | Latin America
www.manoelgehrke.com
Political Accountability | Corruption | Threats to Democracy | Money & Politics | Courts and Politics | Latin America
Thank you, Tim!
February 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Thank you, Tim!
Hi Sameen, there was a project to build one in Brasília, but it has not happened yet: www.archpaper.com/2024/01/bras...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Hi Sameen, there was a project to build one in Brasília, but it has not happened yet: www.archpaper.com/2024/01/bras...
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our findings shed light on how anticorruption breakthroughs are often undone—and how the design of judicial institutions may facilitate political accommodation.
📄 Read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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📄 Read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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An Institutional Fail-Safe? How the Gap in Judicial Independence Between High and Low Courts Explains the Reversal of Corruption Convictions of Former Heads of Government
When former heads of government are criminally convicted for corruption by the judiciary of the countries they once ruled, are these decisions definitive, or are they later reversed? This article e...
www.tandfonline.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our findings shed light on how anticorruption breakthroughs are often undone—and how the design of judicial institutions may facilitate political accommodation.
📄 Read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
@bridgegap-eu.bsky.social @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social
📄 Read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
@bridgegap-eu.bsky.social @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social
The effect of the gap in judicial independence is especially strong in:
✔️ Democracies
✔️ Periods of executive or legislative turnover
✔️ Proportional representation systems, where elite bargaining is more common
✔️ Democracies
✔️ Periods of executive or legislative turnover
✔️ Proportional representation systems, where elite bargaining is more common
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The effect of the gap in judicial independence is especially strong in:
✔️ Democracies
✔️ Periods of executive or legislative turnover
✔️ Proportional representation systems, where elite bargaining is more common
✔️ Democracies
✔️ Periods of executive or legislative turnover
✔️ Proportional representation systems, where elite bargaining is more common