graduation at Administração from Universidade de São Paulo (2001), master's at Sociology from Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2004) and doctorate at Ciência Política from Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2008). Has experience in Political Science, focusing on Politics Behavior, acting on the following subjects: eleições, estudos partidários, partido dos trabalhadores-pt, partidos políticos and campanhas eleitorais. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project maintains the general theme of subnational politics from the previous FAPESP grant. It advances these themes by adding new objectives and new methodological approaches. The novelty focuses on party brokers (local electoral intermediaries) and their effect on party electoral performance. The research will identify brokers in different ways. We measure the effects of their acti…
During his stay at the Federal University of São Carlos in May 2019, professor André Borges shall collaborate with the local research team in the project "Socioeconomic development, institutions and parties: explaining party membership in Latin America". This is an ongoing project, and the stage of data gathering and analysis about party membership at the local level has been just comple…
Researchers on party membership put forward behavioral changes and institutional variables as the main factors behind the fluctuations of membership figures across countries. Yet, the institutional factors have never been systematically put to the empirical test on a large-scale database. By comparing membership figures and rates (ratio party members/voters) in Latin America and Europe, t…
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Despite the incumbents' significant lead, the average re-election rate for federal deputies in Brazil is approximately 55 percent. While previous research has focused mainly on campaign financing and budget amendments used by MPs, this project proposes that subnational party organizations play a crucial role in influencing re-election decisions and electoral success within Brazil's open-l…
What conditions high-intensity engagement among affiliates? In a political scenario where parties do not enjoy much appreciation with people, what makes them dedicate part of their time to party activities? Is it possible to observe greater engagement and distinct patterns of activism among members socialized in democratic periods? To answer these questions, we used the first national sur…
This research project aims to identify, analyze and explain how the middle-level bureaucracy works, to understand if and in what way it influences the policy-making of the Ministry of Mines and Energy to privilege renewable energies as a ministerial priority. Still, it aims to map and analyze the social networks of the middle-level bureaucracy to demarcate the flows of relationships and i…
Assuming the premise that parties tend to implement in the government policies defended during the election, this project's main aim is to verify and measure the extent to which the coalition's configuration and time in office interfere in the party in the presidency of Brazil capacity to deal with the resulting tension between responsiveness and responsibility. Using qualitative and quan…
Party organizations in contemporary democracies face the challenge of promoting the recruitment and mobilization of affiliates in an environment that questions political parties' legitimacy. In an attempt to adapt to the environment, the direct participation of affiliates has been discussed to rescue the credibility of the parties, privileging the empowerment of the bases to the detriment…
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How does mid-level bureaucracy affect public policy production at the ministerial level? This research aims to answer this question by examining the case of the mid-level bureaucracy of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. To achieve this, the research focuses on (1) the policy preferences and (2) the social networks of this bureaucracy as explanatory variables. Methodologically, the qualita…
What conditions high-intensity affiliation? Answering this question using the first national panel with affiliates, investigating the partisan engagement of affiliates engaged more than 20 hours a month in the light of the current theoretical debate and adding a dimension of analysis not faced by the literature: the ideological one. I test hypotheses 1) High-intensity participation is det…
What would be the consequences of affective polarization on party organization change? Can we expect political parties to be key players in the functioning of representative democracies in the aftermath of populism rise? To address these questions, one essential step is to investigate how affective polarization operates among party members in different strata. We found evidence of increas…
This project proposes a comparative analysis of six Brazilian political parties, namely, PT, PSDB, MDB, DEM, PSD and PSOL, with regard to party organization, in order to understand the internal democracy of Brazilian parties from two axes: inclusiveness and formality in the selection of candidates and party leaders. The research aims to fill two gaps in the studies on party organization i…
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| 1 / 1 | Ongoing grants |
| 7 / 7 | Completed research grants |
| 2 / 2 | Ongoing scholarships in Brazil |
| 21 / 18 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 1 / 1 | Ongoing scholarships abroad |
| 5 / 5 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 37 / 34 | All research grants and scholarships |
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