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
2021
Article
Government and Opposition in Legislative Speechmaking
Latin American Politics and Society · with Maurício Izumi