BOOK
State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil. 2019. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Published in Brazil as Ativismo Patrocinado pelo Estado: Burocratas e Movimentos Sociais no Brasil Democrático. 2021. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz.
Reviews: International Studies Review, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Perspectives on Politics, Social Movement Studies
Podcast: New Books Network
ARTICLES
“What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign” (with Liam Bower and Elize Massard). Comparative Politics. Forthcoming.
“Social Movements and Policy Entrenchment” (with Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay). Comparative Politics. Forthcoming.
“Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity.” The American Political Science Review. Volume 117, Issue 3: 835-850 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000892
“Who Counts Where? Federalism and the Politics of Covid-19 Surveillance” (with Philip Rocco, Daniel Béland, Katarzyna Klasa, and Kenneth A. Dubin). The Journal for Health Policy, Politics, and Law. 46 (6): 959–987 (2021). Available on first view.
“Organizing 21st-Century Activism: From Structure to Strategy in Latin American Social Movements.” Latin American Research Review 55(3): 430–444 (2020).
“State Transformation and Participatory Politics in Latin America.” Special issue of Latin American Politics and Society 61(2) (Spring 2019). Co-edited with Lindsay Mayka and Alfred Montero
“The Politics of Participation in Latin America: New Actors and Institutions.” (with Lindsay Mayka and Alfred Montero) Introductory essay for special issue of Latin American Politics and Society 61(2): 1-20 (Spring 2019).
“Making National Participatory Institutions Work: Bureaucrats, Activists, and AIDS Policy in Brazil.” Latin American Politics and Society 61(2): 45-67 (Spring 2019).
“Grassroots Bureaucracy: Intergovernmental Relations and Popular Mobilization around AIDS Policy in Brazil.” Latin American Politics and Society 55(2): 1-25 (Summer 2013).
Honorable mention, Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section best article award (2014).
“Centralizing Decentralized Governance in Brazil.” (with Eduardo Gomez) Publius: The Journal of Federalism 42(4): 636-661 (Fall 2012).
Review of The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America, Shawn Smallman (UNC Chapel Hill, 2007). Latin American Politics and Society 50: 4 (Winter 2008).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Teaching Methods in the Context of a Writing Intensive Course.” Forthcoming. In Pedagogy through the Research Process, eds. Julia Hellwegge, Eric Leopp, and Daniel Mallinson. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
“Participatory Policymaking in Democratic Brazil: Reinventing Corporatism?” (with Lindsay Mayka). 2021. In The Inclusionary Turn in Contemporary Latin America, eds. Diana Kapiszewski, Steven Levitsky, and Deborah Yashar. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“A burocracia de baixo para cima.” 2016. In Estado, Burocracia e Controle Democrático, edited by Carlos Santana. São Paulo: editora Sesi.
“Association” and “HIV/AIDS”. Entries in Encyclopedia of Governance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
WORKING PAPERS
Special issue of World Development on the policy consequences of social movements (Co-editor and co-author of lead article, with Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay). Proposal accepted.
POLICY AND PUBLIC-FACING WORK
“What Americans Can Learn from Brazil’s Fight Against Covid.” Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2022.
“Brazil’s public health system is quietly leading the Coronavirus fight in spite of unscrupulous politicians.” Washington Post, “The Monkey Cage,” May 4, 2020.
“Brazil’s HIV/AIDS policies proved a success. But here are the new challenges.” Washington Post, “The Monkey Cage,” December 1, 2019.
“AIDS Policy in Brazil.” 2019. Sandwich Strategy Reforms project case study, Accountability Research Center, American University.
“The Virtuous Alliance: Leveraging Government Support for Grassroots Responses to the AIDS Epidemic in Brazil” (with John Garrison, World Bank Senior Social Development and Civil Society Specialist). Grassroots Development: Journal of the Inter-American Foundation 34 (2013).