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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
Professor of Political Science at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He is graduate in Political Science at Università degli Studi di Bologna (1997), master and PhD. in Political Science at Universidade de São Paulo (2001 and 2006). He was visiting student at Università di Firenze and academic visitor at Oxford University (2014-2015). Areas of expertise: legislative process, electoral systems, parties and party systems, history of political institutions. Currently researching elections and political behaviour during XIX and the beginning of XX centuries - focusing on the Brazilian First Republic (1889-1930) and the period before the Estado Novo (1930-1937) - and the crise of democracy, in particular dealing with the populist phenomenon and militant democracy as a form of response to authoritarian leaders. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The aim of this study is to contribute to the theoretical development of theories about the first wave of democratization. Based on the observation that most scholars have privileged an approach based on the expansion of political rights and political competition, this project investigates the issue of electoral governance with a view to guarantee "clean elections". "Clean elections" refe…
This project investigates two dimensions of political competition: a) competition for the control of electoral bureaucracy; b) competition for voters. The first dimension is poorly considered in literature and it is related to what I have denominated electoral bureaucracy, that is, the control of the electoral process, from voter enrolment to the phase of certification of election results…
In 1932, the Brazilian revolutionary government adopted a new electoral legislation to the forthcoming elections. The electoral code of 1932 was an innovative law in several aspects, such as the introduction of women's suffrage, the compulsory voting, and the secret ballot. The new legislation also inaugurated an electoral justice system, and permitted the representation of the organized …
This project is a sequence of two previous versions and keeps its analytical and methodological objectives. It aims to show the importance of two institutional variables - the legislative powers of the executive and the structure of legislative organization - in determining the pattern of relationship between the executive and governmental performance. In accordance with the conventional …
How and when do threatened democracies survive? The global rise of anti-democratic leaders and political parties over the past decade underscores the importance of understanding democratic erosion, especially when elections become a mechanism to undermine democracy itself. This research project takes an innovative approach by investigating how and when democratic actors respond to non-vio…
This project is an attempt to consolidate a more broader research agenda about Brazilian representative institutions in the period of 1945-1964. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to investigate the forms of recruitment through transformation of the parliamentary profile and career of seven states (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Ceará and Goiás).…
The equilibrium, according to the literature, is the main feature of the relationship between the Executive and Legislative in the Old Republic. In contrast to the first republican decade in which the break with a routinized institutional apparatus has led to a chaotic environment, it is believed that the years that followed the Campos Sales Government were marked by political and institu…
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The main objective of this research project is to reflect on the federal election practices of the 1891/1930 Republican regime. The ambition is both descriptive and explanatory. Building on the study of contested elections cases in the Chamber of Deputies by defeated candidates, we intend to map voting practices and the most common ways of rigging elections, in addition to finding possibl…
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