Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans: Voting Behavior in Brazil

About Cesar ZuccoDavid J. Samuels

David J. Samuels received his Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego in 1998. His book Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (with Ben Ansell Cambridge 2014) won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation award as well as the William H. Riker best book prize from the APSA's Political Economy Section. He is also the author of Presidents Parties and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart Cambridge 2010) and Ambition Federalism and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge 2003). He has received funding from the NSF (in 1996 and 1999) and the McKnight Foundation (in 2001) and was awarded Fulbright Fellowships in 2004 and 2013. Cesar Zucco holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles (2007) and since 2013 he has taught politics and public policy at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas Rio de Janeiro. He has published articles on legislative politics elections social policy and political economy focusing both on Brazil and on Latin America. His work has appeared in leading journals in political science and Latin American studies.