Full Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of São Paulo and researcher of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Former director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies and editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review. Former vice-provost for research at the University of São Paulo, Graduated at Curso de Ciências Sociais from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, master on Political Science from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1990) and Phd at Social Sciences from Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science of MIT on 2000-2001 and at the Department of Political and Social Science at the European University Institute (2009-2010). Research on the following subjects: inequality, federalism, decentralization, social policies and welfare state. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) intends to be a world-class center which is also committed to knowledge diffusion and technology transfer. Hosted at CEBRAP and composed by associated university departments, the center is composed by a multi-disciplinary group - demographers, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists -, whose research agenda aims at stu…
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Within the literature, the most influential theory on the phenomenon of political and social polarization points out that its roots are related to the deepening of economic inequality in democracies. This postulate, however, contrasts with the movement witnessed in the first decade of the 2000s in Latin America, in which polarization advanced in a context of reducing inequality in the reg…
Credit policies for individual consumers gained centrality on the list of inclusive public policies since the 1990s. They were stimulated by the World Bank and by the United Nations and were adopted in several Latin American countries under governments of different ideological orientations. The topic, however, is understudied. The literature - strongly based on the US case - suggests that…
Founded in the early 1990s, UrbanData-Brasil: Databank on Urban Brazil locates, collects and organizes bibliographical data, disseminating access to cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research on Brazil's urban issues. The project presently collates more than 16,000 bibliographic entries. Within the context of the partnership between UrbanData-Brasil and the Center for Metropolita…
The present project main objective is to update the existent data about Brazilian electorate support to redistributive policies, taxation and spending, taking the Has Brazil Become More Conservative? Article as a basis. Considering that this study covers the 2008-2014 period, the time elapsed since the last year analyzed is enough for us to say that the notions supported by it are outdate…
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Credit policies for individual consumers gained centrality on the list of inclusive public policies since the 1990s. They were stimulated by the World Bank and by the United Nations and were adopted in several Latin American countries under governments of different ideological orientations. The topic, however, is understudied. The literature - strongly based on the US case - suggests that…
Why Brazil has a regressive tax system at the same time its expenditure policies are progressive and redistributive? The question is particularly troublesome considering that Brazil, despite being able to recently reduce its income inequality through in-kind services and conditional cash transfers, remains as one of the most unequal countries in the world. By analyzing a significant and b…
Processes of economic restructuring during the 70s and 80s have deeply impacted urban redevelopment policies in the main global capitals throughout the world. Following this trend, one of the most populated cities in the world and the largest Brazilian metropolis, the city of São Paulo, has developed its own legal and political institutional arrangements to promote large scale urban redev…
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| 59 / 30 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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