Political Careers, Corruption, and ImpunityIn Political Careers, Corruption, and Impunity: Panama's Assembly, 19842009, Carlos Guevara Mann systematically examines the behavior of the members of Panamas Legislative Assembly between 1984 and 2009, an arena previously unexplored in studies of Panamanian politics. He challenges fundamental aspects of scholarly literature on democratic legislatures, with important consequences for understanding democratic politics in Latin America and other parts