Legislative institutions
The internal organisation of the Brazilian National Congress: standing committees, agenda power, party discipline, and executive–legislative relations under coalitional presidentialism. The continuous axis of the work since the 1980s.
Political economy
Legislative decision-making on economic policy: how proposals from the executive move through the finance committees, state public debt and electoral outcomes, deindustrialisation and voting behaviour.
Representation and territory
Political representation in the Legal Amazon, legislative behaviour on environmental matters, and issue-based caucuses, such as the agribusiness caucus, in Congress.
Parties and elections
The Brazilian party system, fragmentation, electoral competition, and the behaviour of state legislative assemblies.