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…
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 project aims to analyze the relationship between electoral lists and electoral campaigns. More specifically, the project inquiries about the determinants of coalition formation and electoral lists in proportional elections. The abolishment of electoral coalitions (EC 97/2017) in proportional elections to legislative seats beginning in 2020 significantly impacted the list formation pr…
This research seeks to deepen our understanding of municipal party organization. It aims to identify recent patterns of evolution, or involution, in the number and distribution of municipal directories among Brazilian parties. The result we obtained thus far in this research project suggests an apartment paradox: why are a large number of local party organizations dying if they are electo…
Some individuals who actively participate in political campaigns do not get to be elected. Other participants decide not to run. Even though, many of them become important actors in intermediate the relationship between voters and elected politicians. As well as they bring the demands of communities to cabinets, they try to influence voters in the context of a high number of candidates, d…
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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…
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…
This project will analyze how electoral campaigns for different levels of office relate to one another to produce the list of candidates. What types of agreements end up producing these lists, and what types of political actors are in charge of who appears on them (and in what order)? We will research these questions with a mixed-method approach, using both quantitative and qualitative me…
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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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