Research Interests

Participatory budgeting; participatory institutions and mechanisms; Latin American politics; Brazil; political parties; policy diffusion; social movement; measurement of democracy

Working Papers

• "The Tentacles of Participatory Budgeting: Cross-Party Diffusion of PB in Brazil​" 
• "The Politics of “Failed Policy” – The Decline of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil"
• "When Paper Stones are not Enough: Party System Institutionalization and Protests" (co-author with Omar Coronel)

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Workshops and Panels

• "30 Years of Democracy in Brazil" at the Kellogg Institute (April 20, 2015) 
• "What's the Matter with Brazil" at the Kellogg Institute (November 30, 2016)

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