Introduction to Brazilian Elections
An overview table of the main presidential candidates´ political platforms:
Anthony Pereira: Lasting Impacts of the Brazilian Military
Professor Anthony Pereira is the Director of King’s Brazil Institute at King’s College in London. His research interests include comparative politics, democracy and authoritarianism, political regimes and regime change, military rule, social movements, new institutions of accountability in Brazilian public security, Brazil's political, economic, and social transformation in the 20th and early 21st century. He received his Ph.D from Harvard in 1991.
Eduardo Mello: Inequalities and Political Establishment
Eduardo Mello is an assistant professor of politics and international relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil. His research interests include governance, poverty reduction, the political economy of education, electoral clientelism, the provision of public goods, and political corruption. In particular, Dr. Mello is currently working on a large-scale research project on the political and economic factors driving levels of political corruption in new democracies. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Janina Onuki: The Role of Women in Politics
Professor Janina Onuki is the Director of the Institute of International Relations of the University of São Paulo (USP). Her research interests include external policy analysis, in particular considering international regimes, regional integration, and public opinion. She earned her Master and PhD degrees in political science from the University of São Paulo.
Marta Arretche: Insiders and Outsiders – Inclusive Democratization
Marta Arretche is Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of São Paulo (USP) and Director of the Centro de Estudos da Metropole (Center for Metropolitan Studies). Her research interests are in the area of comparative institutional analysis, including studies about inequality and comparative social systems analysis. She earned her Master and PhD degrees from the University of Campinas, and her post-doc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Florian Hoffmann: Elections in Brazil from an International Perspective
Florian Hoffmann is a Professor of Law in the Law Department of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and an associate researcher in the Núcleo de Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Center) of that Department. Prior to this he was the Franz Haniel Chair of Public Policy (2010-2016) and the Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy (2012-2015) at the University of Erfurt (Germany). Before this he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2008-2010) and the PUC-Rio (2003-2008). His work has generally focused on the interface between law and politics, with his main research interest having been in international law and human rights and particularly the interface between law and development. He has published, inter alia, on the UN and human rights, economic and social rights and international legal theory – he is, with Anne Orford, the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on the Theory of International Law (2016).
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