Thiago Nascimento da Silva
Texas A&M University
Department of Political Science
2010 Allen Building
College Station, TX 77843-4348
Department Phone: (979) 845-2511
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Education
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2013-present
Fields: Comparative Politics and Advanced Methods
Committee: Guy Whitten (Chair), Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Scott Cook, and Kirby Goidel.
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of São Paulo, 2011-present
Fields: Comparative Politics and Brazilian Politics
Committee: Fernando Limongi (Chair).
M.S. in Political Science, University of São Paulo, 2010
B.A. in Social Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, 2007
Research
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Silva, Thiago, and Estevão Silva. 2015. “Elections in Brazil Before Democracy: The Electoral Code
of 1932, and the Electoral Processes of 1933 and 1934.” [Eleições no Brasil Antes da Democracia: O
Código Eleitoral de 1932 e os Pleitos de 1933 e 1934] in Revista de Sociologia e Política 23(56):75-106.
Silva, T. N. 2011. “Democracy and Justice in Contemporary Political Theory Perspective.” [Justiça e
Democracia na Perspectiva da Teoria Política Contemporânea] in Crítica Contemporânea 1:227-249.
Manuscripts Under Review
Araujo, Victor, Thiago Silva, and Marcelo Vieira. “Constitutional Design and Decision-Making Processes in Presidential Systems: An Analysis of the President’s Executive Powers Over Cabinets.” Under
Review.
Press
von Vacano, Diego, and Thiago Silva. 2015. “Bolivian elections get the Hollywood treatment, and now
we’re discussing term limits.” [online] The Washington Post: Monkey Cage Blog.
von Vacano, Diego, and Thiago Silva. 2014. “Brazil’s Protest Paradox.” [online] The Washington Post:
Monkey Cage Blog.
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Selected Working Papers
Silva, Thiago. 2015. “How Long Will It Last? Cabinet Termination in Presidential Systems.”
Escobar-Lemmon, Maria, Kendall Funk, and Thiago Silva. 2015. “The Leading Ladies: How the
Election of Women Executives Leads to Representative Bureaucracies.”
Silva, Thiago. 2015. “Who Gets What? The Importance of the Budget in Portfolios’ Allocation.”
Sagarzazu, Iñaki, and Thiago Silva. 2014. “Changing Female Representation: Reanalyzing the Impact
of Gender Quotas Through the Evolution of Legislative Initiatives.”
Research Interests
Comparative Politics | Coalition Governments | Formation and Termination of Cabinets | Presidential
Systems | Political Economy | Latin American Politics | Female Political Representation | Historical
Democratization Processes
Conference Presentation
Silva, Thiago, Marcelo Vieira, and Victor Araujo. 2015. “Constitutional Design and Decision-Making
Processes in Presidential Systems: An Analysis of the President’s Executive Powers Over Cabinets.”
Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
IL, USA.
Sagarzazu, Iñaki, and Thiago Silva. 2015. “Changing Female Representation: Reanalyzing the Impact
of Gender Quotas Through the Evolution of Legislative Initiatives.” Paper presented at the 73rd Annual
Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
→Paper also presented at the workshop “Thirty Years of Democracy in Brazil: A Research Workshop,” Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA, 2015.
Silva, Estevão, and Thiago Silva. 2013. “Elections in Brazil before democracy: the cases of 1933 and
1934.” [Eleições no Brasil antes da democracia: os casos de 1933 e 1934]. Paper presented at 3rd
Seminar of the Graduate Student in Political Science at University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Campanini, Amanda, Fabricio Vasselai, and Thiago Silva. 2012. “Executive-Legislative relations in
drafting and voting of the new Brazilian Forest Code.” [Vitórias e derrotas legislativas na elaboração e
votação do novo Código Florestal brasileiro]. Paper presented at 8th Meeting of the Brazilian Political
Science Association, Gramado, RS, Brazil.
Silva, Thiago. 2012. “Representative Government and the Development of Democracy in Brazil: A
Historical Shift, 1889-1945.” Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Silva, Thiago. 2010 “Is There a Place for Social Justice in Democratic Theory?” [Qual o lugar da justiça
social na teoria democrática?]. Paper presented at V Latin American Congress of Political Science,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Silva, Thiago. 2010. “Democracy: Competitive and Epistemic Theories.” [Teorias competitivas da
democracia e teorias epistêmicas da democracia]. Paper presented at III Uruguayan Congress of Political Science, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Silva, Thiago. 2009. “Democracy and Justice: Between Empirical and Normative Dimensions.” [Democracia e justiça: entre a normatividade e a empiria]. Paper presented at IX National Congress of Political
Science, Santa Fé, Argentina.
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Affiliation in Research Group
Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance (PERG). Texas A&M University. 2013-present.
Project: The PERG seeks to apply its normative commitments to the goals of full and active democratic representation, equality across the spectrum of policy programs, and efficiency and efficacy in
the full array of aspects of governance within a wide variety of public policy concerns. Coordinator:
Kenneth Meier (Texas A&M University). Website: http://perg.tamu.edu/PERG/Home.html
Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). São Paulo. 2011-present.
Project: “Center for the Study of Political Institutions and Elections.” The main goals of this
research project are : (1) to analyze the patterns of interaction between Brazilian Executive and Legislative branches; (2) to analyze the performance of the Brazilian government in a comparative perspective;
and (3) to analyze the effects of political institutions on the behavior of the Brazilian President and the
Congressmen. Coordinators: Fernando Limongi (University of São Paulo) and Argelina Figueiredo
(IESP-UERJ). Website: http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/9198575734506397
Research Assistant
Florian Hollenbach. 2015. Data collection and management regarding Brazilian taxation system, property taxes, and Brazilian politics.
Erica Owen. 2014. Data management in R and Stata in Brazilian firms and labor market.
Diego von Vacano. 2014-2015. Data collection and management in Central American immigration and
refugee situations.
Guy D. Whitten. 2013-present. Data collection and management in R and Stata; Dataset construction
regarding coalition governments, comparative political economy and economic voting.
Maria Escobar-Lemmon. 2014. Data collection and management in female political representation.
Duke University, Durham NC. 2013.
Project: “Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from
Latin America.” Duties: Data management and data coding. Coordinators: Dr. Nicholas Carnes
(Duke University) and Dr. Noam Lupu (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Publication: Carnes, Nicholas and Noam Lupu. 2015. “Rethinking the Comparative Perspective
on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America,” in American Journal of Political Science,
Vol. 59, No. 1, p. 1-18.
National Democratic Institute, NDI, Washington DC. 2012.
Project: “Case Study Research on Electronic Voting in Brazil.” Duties: Data collection; Planning
and conduction of interviews. Coordinators: Eka Siradze (NDI) and Daniel Hidalgo (IFES and MIT).
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University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley. 2011
Project: “Experiment designed to measure the effects of perception of political corruption on
the voting behavior of the electorate in the city of São Paulo.” Duties: Data construction; Selection
of participants for focus group and survey; Planning and conduction of focus groups. Coordinator:
Miguel de Figueiredo (UC Berkeley).
Teaching Experience
2011. Supervised Practice in Teaching. Course: Politics I. Mandatory course of Undergraduate Program
in Social Science, offered by the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP). Under
the supervision of Professor Cicero Araujo (USP).
2009. Supervised Practice in Teaching. Course: Politics I. Mandatory course of Undergraduate Program
in Social Science, offered by the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP). Under
the supervision of Professor Matthew MacLeod Taylor (American University).
Research Methodology Courses and Software Skills
R, Stata, HTML, LATEX, RATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series).
2015. Workshop in Empirical Modeling of Theory. Professor Robert Franzese (University of Michigan).
2015. Time Series Analysis. Professor B. Dan Wood (Texas A&M University).
2014. Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Professor B. Dan Wood (Texas A&M University).
2014. Experimental Research Methods. Professor Nehemia Geva (Texas A&M University).
2014. Game Theory. Professor Ahmer Tarar (Texas A&M University).
2014. Quantitative Political Analysis II (Advanced Econometrics and Matrix Algebra). Professor Guy
Whitten (Texas A&M University).
2013. Quantitative Political Analysis I (Econometrics and Linear Algebra). Professor Paul Kellstedt
(Texas A&M University).
2013. Stata Programming. College Station, Stata Corp.
2013. Voting in Legislatures: From theory to data analysis. Professor Simon Jackman (Stanford University). International Political Science Association (IPSA) 4th Annual Summer School.
2012. Quantitative Text Analysis. Professor Inãki Sagarzazu (University of Glasgow). IPSA 3rd Annual
Summer School.
2011. Multiple Regression Analysis. Professor Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University). IPSA 2nd Annual
Summer School.
2011. Quantitative Methods for Political Science and IR. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda (University of São Paulo).
2011. Statistical Programming in R. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda (University
of São Paulo).
2010. Basic Statistics for Social Sciences and IR. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda
(University of São Paulo).
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Grants and Scholarship
2011-2013. Ph.D. Scholarship by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel
(CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education. R$53,800.00
2012. Research Division’s Funds from the Provost for Culture and Extension of the University of São
Paulo to attend and present a paper at the 70th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, USA. R$:3,586.43
2008-2011. Master Scholarship by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq), Brazilian Ministry of Education. R$27,760.00
Professional Memberships
American Political Science Association, Member
Brazilian Political Science Association, Member
International Political Science Association, Member
International Studies Association, Member
Latin American Studies Association, Member
Midwest Political Science Association, Member
Southern Political Science Association, Member
Languages
English, Portuguese and Spanish.
References
Guy D. Whitten
Professor
Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4348, USA
[email protected]
Fernando Limongi
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, SP 05508-900, Brazil
[email protected]
Jose Antonio Cheibub
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
[email protected]
Last updated: December 27, 2015
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