Danilo B. Medeiros

Political Scientist · UFMG

Danilo B. Medeiros

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

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UFMG interested in how institutions shape political behavior — and how political behavior reshapes institutions. My research combines different quantitative methods to study legislative politics and critical moments in Brazilian and Latin American democracies.

Legislative Politics Political Polarization Coalition Presidentialism Constitutional Change Ideal Point Estimation Text-as-Data

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