Numerous colleagues have generously offered ideas and suggestions that enriched this book. We have also learned a great deal from a promising cohort of recent graduate students whose empirical data has greatly illuminated the issues at hand. We will not attempt to list them all here, for fear of either writing an encyclopedic acknowledgments section or, more likely, inadvertently forgetting someone. But you know who you are. Various entrepreneurial colleagues organized seminars, conferences,

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... collective publications that have allowed us to explore our arguments and receive critical feedback over the past few years. An invitation from Robert Rotberg to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences sparked the development of the accountability heuristic in Chapter 3. Fernando Filgueiras spearheaded the two-day conference "Rethinking Anticorruption Efforts in Brazil" that brought together a select group of public servants, anticorruption practitioners, and academics at the Escola Nacional de Administração Pública in Brasília. Sandra Botero, Daniel Brinks, and Ezequiel González-Ocantos held a collegial seminar "Politics and Law in Latin America" at the Universidad del Rosário, which got us thinking about the politics of judicial policy entrepreneurship. Maria Popova, Manuel Balán, and Juan Wang welcomed the presentation of our reflections on Lava Jato at the McGill University workshop "Politics of Corruption Prosecutions," which was also the source of a number of comparative insights developed in the pages ahead. Leonardo Avritzer, Fábio Kerche, and Acknowledgments