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The struggle against corruption has become Brazil's main concern and the struggle against corruption is the major battle flag of the electoral process that led to Jair Bolsonaro's victory. Centred on the Lava Jato operation, the struggle against corruption in Brazil can be called a media legal operation with the objective of changing the perception of social actors about corruption as a phenomenon. Not only are there strong elements of individualization of behaviour towards particular political groups. We will also discuss the press, especially the mainstream media, who accepted the singularity proposed by the Lava Jato operation. This will be the theme of the table in which will also be presented two books recently produced around the theme of the Lava Jato operation. They are: Justiça no Brasil: as margens da democracia and Operação Lava Jato e a Democracia Brasileira.

Bio note

Leonardo Avritzer - Holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1983), a Master's degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1987), a PhD in Political Sociology - New School for Social Research (1993) and postdoctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998-1999) and (2003). He is currently a full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was a representative of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (2005-2011), visiting professor at USP (2004), Tulane University (2008) and associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (2009) ). He was director of the National Association of Postgraduate Programmes and Research in Social Sciences (1997-1998) and current president of the Brazilian Association of Political Science (2012-2014). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He is the author of the following books: Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America (2002) and  A moralidade da democracia (1996) - Best Book of the Year Award (ANPOCS), Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil (2009), Los Desafios de la Participación en América Latina (2014).