This essay discusses the relation between knowledge, comprehension and culture, identifies the epistemological and intersubjective roots in the notion of comprehension and stresses some of the bonds between the studies on ...

We study how corruption scandals lead to different forms of political discontent. We take advantage of the fact that the largest corruption scandal during the pandemic in Peru (the vacungate scandal) erupted during the ...

The 1990s witnessed the spread of anti-corruption scandals in Latin American countries as well as a decade in which international transparency standards were developed. These two processes were closely related but they ...

The present study investigates how the magazine VEJA builds, at systemic choices of transitivity and lexicon, systems of knowledge and meaning for three political scandals, namely: mensalão, dossiê and cartões corportativos ...

The Mensalão trial was Brazil's most important political corruption trial ever and an emblematic ex post accountability success. More than 28 individuals were convicted in relation to a legislative vote-buying scheme, many ...

Ce texte cherche à repérer la place des scandales politiques comme l’un des éléments principaux de la mise en forme du problème public de la corruption en Argentine pendant les années 1990. Dans un premier temps, nous ...

In February 2021, the Peruvian 'vaccinegate' scandal broke when the media reported that nearly 500 experimental doses of an ongoing COVID-19 trial were given to key individuals not enrolled in the trial. Indeed, vaccine ...