Political Behavior

Three main questions guide this research project with the objective of verifying if increases in specific spending categories can be observed before elections whereas other types of spending are reduced by governors in Argentinean provinces and in Brazilian states. The first one asks if since the democratization elections have served as a stimulus to change the composition of spending by governments in Argentinean provinces and in Brazilian states. Secondly, are governor elections in the immediate aftermath of the democratic transition more prone to provoke sudden changes in budget allocations to specific types of spending, again in the provinces and the states? Finally, what is the impact of federalism on the fiscal behavior of Argentinean provinces and Brazilian states in election years? In order to answer these questions, this project will explore how the elections for governor influenced the composition of spending in Argentinean provinces and states in Brazil from the beginning of democratization through to 2009.

From Lorena Guadalupe Barberia e George Avelino Filho.

This research aims to evaluate the behavior of senators in roll calls from 1989 to 2010. To the extent that the Senate is endowed with extensive powers, is composed by members with a long political history and it is the federative house, this work will verify whether presidential powers and party leaders are able to mold the preference structures of individual senators. In other words, it verifies which and how many dimensions are necessary to represent at least fairly the preferences of senators. The W-NOMINATE will be the technique used for this purpose.

From Maurício Yoshida Izumi.

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Izumi is currently a master student of the Graduate Program in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2010 he obtained a degree in Social Sciences from the same university. Since January 2009, he is a research assistant at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP).
 

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Professor in the Department of Political Science, USP. He obtained his degree in Political Science from the Università degli Studi di Bologna in 1997, a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo in 2001 and a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo in 2006. His field of interest is Political Science especially Comparative Political Science, in the following themes: legislative process, electoral systems and the history of political institutions.
 

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Barberia is a Doctor Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, principal researcher of the Research Center for Comparative and International Studies (NECI), principal researcher of the Center for Studies in Public Policy and Public Sector Economics (CEPESP) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, and a research associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She received her doctoral degree from Getúlio Vargas Foundation-EAESP in Government and Public Administration, a Master degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked in Ecuador and Panama as a Junior Economist and in research projects dealing with economies in transition at the Harvard Institute for International Development. From 2001 to April 2011, she was Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) from Harvard University.
 

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