EPSS 2026 Annual Conference
Research
Publications, ongoing projects, and dissemination.
Publications
Party Politics · 2026 · OnlineFirst
Summary
Presidents in multiparty systems keep coalition partners on board not only with ministries but also with lower-level posts in the bureaucracy. Using roll-call votes on 161 bills in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies (2003–2018), I show that these appointments strongly increase legislative support for the government’s bills.
Work in progress
Working papers
Under review
Ideological Cohesion and Legislative Efficiency in Presidential Systems
In preparation for submission
Electoral Prospects of Party Defectors: Roll-Call Voting and Electoral Performance in South America
Book chapter
In preparation for submission
Introduction: Why and How to Study Portfolio Design
Articles
Full draft
Tailoring ministerial office to office holders: The impact of gender on portfolio reforms in Western Europe
Drafting
Explaining changes in the distribution of policy competencies in multiparty governments
Drafting
Ideological dispersion and convergence in coalition governments.
Research notes
Drafting
The Politics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies: Research Note on Dataset
Drafting
Legislative speeches in South America: A corpus of committee debates (Congresul)
Dissertation
Seeking Office, Policy, or Votes? An Analysis of Legislative Coalitions, Motivations, and Behavior in Multiparty Presidential Systems
Summary
Most research on coalitions in presidential systems focuses on the president who builds them. My dissertation looks instead at the parties that join, stay in, or leave these governments, and at what they seek: office, policy, or votes. Three papers take each goal in turn, studying political appointments in Brazil, ideological distance and law-making in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, and the electoral fate of legislators who break with their party in Brazil and Chile.
Projects
Conferences, workshops and training
Conferences
Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science, 2025 Winter Meeting
ECPR 2024 General Conference
ECPR 8th Conference of the Standing Group on Parliaments
Workshops
Studying Political Actors and Institutions in Brazil: Methodological Approaches and Research Designs
Unleashing the Potential of Geography in Social Sciences: An Introduction to GIS with R
Summer schools
Summer School of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
