He graduated in História at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1982), hold master's degree in Sociology from Universidade de São Paulo (1991), and Ph.d. in Political Sciencefrom Stanford University (2000). He is currently an associate professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and coordinator of the FGV-CEPESP (Center for the Study of Poliitics and Economics of the Public Sector). He has experience in Comparative Politics, acting on the following subjects: democratic institutions and public spending, federalism and decentralization, political parties and electoral strategies.. (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…
The Center for Innovation in Urban Public Policies, CITIES, is concerned with the spatial distribution of income where the most vulnerable populations live on the outskirts of cities far from jobs, studies and a series of complementary activities that influence their formation. This distribution of space ends up greatly reducing opportunities for the poorest populations. CITIES intends to…
Brazil is widely regarded as a country in which the tension between bureaucrats and politicians illustrates the dilemmas of building coalitions, managing state-owned enterprises and providing basic services of social and infrastructure policy. Patronage appointments are at the heart of this tension. As several scholars have noted, they can be doled out according to different criteria, suc…
The decentralization that took place over the last decades in Brazil increased the role of both state and municipal governments in the implementation of public policies, and motivated an increase in scholarship about subnational governments. These studies raised important questions and hypotheses; yet, comparative knowledge about state politics continues to lag behind. In an earlier resea…
This project sets out to explore and explain the fiscal effects of legislative malapportionment in four Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador, which are the countries with the highest ranking in legislative malapportionment in the region. The proposal spans at least two decades in each country, focusing on the period from 1980s to 2000s. Professor Gordin will be…
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This postdoctoral project aims to investigate the relationship between different levels of government in electoral coordination conducted by political parties. The first phase of the research focused on mapping coalitions in state governments and their relationship with electoral coalitions. It identified 2,752 state secretaries in 5,506 observations, with party affiliation information av…
According to the dominant asymmetric information models in the literature on clientelism, political parties often lack comprehensive knowledge about individual voters. Consequently, they rely on intermediaries, commonly referred to as brokers, to bridge this informational gap. Nevertheless, recent studies have raised questions regarding the ability of these models to adequately account fo…
This research proposal adds new elements to the debate regarding the connectionelectoral in the Brazilian case. With an emphasis on the programmatic component arising from contentpolicy, innovates with the aim of incorporating measurements obtained from the use ofcomputational learning for text analysis - approach widely known astext-as-data - in the investigation regarding the link betwe…
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This project aims to examine comparatively whether and how parties' organizational characteristics influences the performance of the Brazilian political institutions, particularly by analyzing their effects on national and subnational electoral arenas over time. Based on the comparative analysis of the main political parties, this study aims to address a significant gap in Brazilian polit…
The central question of the economic voting theory is whether the economic context, including the gubernatorial policies adopted, influences the voters' decision at the polls (Mueller 1970, Hibbs 1977, 1982). The theory maintain that the agents who led to economic prosperity should be compensated at the polls, while those who are held responsible for the decline should be punished. To ans…
Does the state of the economy carry weight on the voter's evaluation over the government's performance? This issue is at the heart of a continually growing field of research on electoral behavior: the economic voting hypothesis. It is estimated that over 300 articles and books have been written on the subject (Lewis - Beck 2013). Although the United States has been the most studied countr…
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This project aims to examine whether and how parties' organizational characteristics influence the performance of Brazilian political institutions, particularly by analyzing their effects on national and subnational electoral arenas over time. Based on a comparative analysis of the main political parties, this study aims to address a significant gap in Brazilian politics: to analyze the c…
The elections of federal representatives, according to the literature, although candidates could pursue throughout the whole state, are defined locally, due to the ability of candidates in raise support from municipal brokers, also known as "cabos eleitorais". This support can be achieved by two ways not necessarily mutually exclusive. The first one refers to local party organization. Thr…
The objective of this proposal is to explain an old puzzle in Brazilian politics that relates low levels of party credibility among voters and a high correlation of parties' electoral support at municipal levels across elections.Scholarship on the Brazilian "electoral connection", that is, the activities incumbents do to increase their reelection chances, usually depart from a diagnosis a…
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