In the Name of Integrity? Anticorruption Discourse of Brazilian Operation Lava Jato.
This article identifies four frames of corruption in the discourse of three leaders of Operation Lava Jato, also known in English as Operation Car Wash, a large-scale Brazilian anticorruption operation (2014–2021). These frames are inequality, hidden pact, backwardness, and chronic disease. The fram...
| Published in: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 235 - 256 |
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Jun2025
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