Luciano Da Ros

Luciano Da Ros is associate professor of political science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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January 2026, Volume 37, Issue 1

How to Bring Authoritarians to Justice

Brazil did something that few democracies achieve: It convicted a former president of attempting a coup. How did the country’s courts hold would-be autocrat Jair Bolsonaro accountable when so many other coup plotters go unpunished?