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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Associate Professor of Politics at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil), and Associate Editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review, published by the Brazilian Political Science Association (ABCP). He was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Democracy and Human Development at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame (spring 2018), and Celso Furtado Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, St John's College (2015-2016). For his doctoral thesis, he received the CAPES Thesis Award 2009. In 2014 he received the Olavo Brasil de Lima Jr. Prize, awarded by the ABCP. He is researcher of FAPESP and CNPq (productivity scholarship), and a member of the Standing Groups on Political Parties, Federalism, and Presidential Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). His research interests include political parties, political behavior and comparative political institutions . (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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During his stay at the Federal University of São Carlos in May 2019, professor André Borges shall collaborate with the local research team in the project "Socioeconomic development, institutions and parties: explaining party membership in Latin America". This is an ongoing project, and the stage of data gathering and analysis about party membership at the local level has been just comple…
Researchers on party membership put forward behavioral changes and institutional variables as the main factors behind the fluctuations of membership figures across countries. Yet, the institutional factors have never been systematically put to the empirical test on a large-scale database. By comparing membership figures and rates (ratio party members/voters) in Latin America and Europe, t…
The formation of party attachments is an important factor for the institutionalization of party systems and for the consolidation of new democracies (Mainwaring and Torcal, 2006). The decline of party membership is seen as part of the broad decline in traditional modes of political participation. Both are commonly explained by using survey-based/individual-level data to highlight individu…
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What conditions high-intensity engagement among affiliates? In a political scenario where parties do not enjoy much appreciation with people, what makes them dedicate part of their time to party activities? Is it possible to observe greater engagement and distinct patterns of activism among members socialized in democratic periods? To answer these questions, we used the first national sur…
Party organizations in contemporary democracies face the challenge of promoting the recruitment and mobilization of affiliates in an environment that questions political parties' legitimacy. In an attempt to adapt to the environment, the direct participation of affiliates has been discussed to rescue the credibility of the parties, privileging the empowerment of the bases to the detriment…
This project proposes to comparatively analyze six legends, namely, PT, PSDB, MDB, DEM, PSD and PSOL, with regard to party organization, in order to understand the internal democracy of Brazilian parties from two axes: inclusiveness and formality/informality, in the selection of candidates and party leaders. The research aims to fill two gaps present in studies on party organization in Br…
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The proposal aims to understand how Brazilian political parties survive in contemporary representative government. This project proposes to investigate comparatively the trajectories of PT, PSDB, PMDB and PFL/DEM between 1998 and 2018 at the national (executive and legislative) and state (executive) levels by using the process-tracing technique in path dependence. The main hypothesis is t…
This research has the objective of comparing the Truth Commission of the State of São Paulo "Rubens Paiva" and that of the state of Rio de Janeiro (2012-2015). Through a documentary analysis of the bills and the final and partial reports of these committees, we sought to observe how the composition and political and institutional natures that were profoundly different from these commissio…
The political system and the administrative division of Brazil influence the organizational model of the Brazilian political parties, especially in their decision-making structure, since the parties need to be multi-level, that is, with governing bodies at the municipal, state and national levels. The objective of the project is to analyze the dynamics of intraparty power and control mech…
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This project proposes a comparative analysis of six Brazilian political parties, namely, PT, PSDB, MDB, DEM, PSD and PSOL, with regard to party organization, in order to understand the internal democracy of Brazilian parties from two axes: inclusiveness and formality in the selection of candidates and party leaders. The research aims to fill two gaps in the studies on party organization i…
The project aims to investigate the relationship between bureaucrats and interest groups. The methodology includes an integrative literature review and a comparative study. Through the literature review, I will select cases for the comparative analysis, in which I will conduct surveys and in-depth interviews with bureaucrats to identify their political connections. The goal is to verify i…
This research aims to compare the "Comissão da Verdade Rubens Paiva" (Rubens Paiva Truth Commission) in Sao Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro (2012-2015) states. Both have profoundly different political-institutional natures, which have influenced each one's institutionalization levels. Thus, through a documentary analysis of these commissions' reports, besides the Bill voting processes in the …
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