Danilo B. Medeiros

Political Scientist · UFMG

Danilo B. Medeiros

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

I study political institutions, legislative politics, political polarization, coalition presidentialism, and constitutional change in Brazil and Latin America. My work combines quantitative methods, text-as-data approaches, and comparative institutional analysis to explain how political actors structure competition and policy-making.

Legislative Politics Political Polarization Coalition Presidentialism Constitutional Change Text-as-Data Brazilian Politics

Recent publications

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2026
Article

Partisan and Nonpartisan Models of Constitution-Making

Journal of Politics in Latin America · with Rodolfo de Camargo Lima

2022
Article

Onde está a Polarização Política no Brasil?

Cadernos Adenauer

2021
Article

Government and Opposition in Legislative Speechmaking

Latin American Politics and Society · with Maurício Izumi