Thiago Nascimento da Silva Texas A&M University 2010 Allen Building College Station, TX 77843-4348 Department Phone: (979) 845-2511 Phone: (979) 703-0845 Email: nsthiago@tamu.edu Homepage: http://people.tamu.edu/ nsthiago/ Education Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2013-present Fields: Comparative Politics and Methods Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of São Paulo, 2011-present Fields: Comparative Politics and Brazilian Politics M.S. in Political Science, University of São Paulo, 2010 B.A. in Social Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, 2007 Research Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals Silva, Thiago, and Estevão Silva. 2016. Elections in Brazil Before Democracy: The Electoral Code of 1932, and the Electoral Processes of 1933 and 1934. [Eleições no Brasil Antes da Democracia: O Código Eleitoral de 1932 e os Pleitos de 1933 e 1934] in Revista de Sociologia e Política, Brazil. Forthcoming. Silva, T. N. 2011. Democracy and Justice in Contemporary Political Theory Perspective, [Justiça e Democracia na Perspectiva da Teoria Política Contemporânea] in Crítica Contemporânea, 1:227-249, Uruguay. Press von Vacano, Diego, and Thiago Silva. 2014. Brazil s Protest Paradox. [online] The Washington Post: Monkey Cage Blog. Selected Working Papers Silva, Thiago. 2015. Coalition Formation and Survival in Multiparty Presidential Systems. Araujo, Victor, Thiago Silva, and Marcelo Vieira. 2014-present. Research Project: Constitutional Design and Decision-Making Processes in Presidential Systems. Silva, Thiago, and Iñaki Sagarzazu. 2014-present. Changing Female Representation: Reanalyzing the Impact of Gender Quotas Through the Evolution of Congressional Discussions. Research Interests Comparative Politics Latin American Politics Coalition Governments Presidential Systems Cabinet Formation and Survival Democratization Processes
Thiago Nascimento da Silva - CV 2 Conference Presentation Silva, Thiago, Marcelo Vieira, and Victor Araujo. 2015. Constitutional Design and Decision-Making Processes in Presidential Systems: An Analysis of the President s Executive Powers Over Cabinets. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, USA. Sagarzazu, Iñaki, and Thiago Silva. 2015. Changing Female Representation: Reanalyzing the Impact of Gender Quotas Through the Evolution of Legislative Initiatives. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, USA. Paper also presented at the workshop Thirty Years of Democracy in Brazil: A Research Workshop, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA, 2015. Silva, Estevão, and Thiago Silva. 2013. Elections in Brazil before democracy: the cases of 1933 and 1934. [Eleições no Brasil antes da democracia: os casos de 1933 e 1934]. Paper presented at 3rd Seminar of the Graduate Student in Political Science at University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Campanini, Amanda, Fabricio Vasselai, and Thiago Silva. 2012. Executive-Legislative relations in drafting and voting of the new Brazilian Forest Code. [Vitórias e derrotas legislativas na elaboração e votação do novo Código Florestal brasileiro]. Paper presented at 8th Meeting of the Brazilian Political Science Association, Gramado, RS, Brazil. Silva, Thiago. 2012. Representative Government and the Development of Democracy in Brazil: A Historical Shift, 1889-1945. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, USA. Silva, Thiago. 2010 Is There a Place for Social Justice in Democratic Theory? [Qual o lugar da justiça social na teoria democrática?]. Paper presented at V Latin American Congress of Political Science, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Silva, Thiago. 2010. Democracy: Competitive and Epistemic Theories. [Teorias competitivas da democracia e teorias epistêmicas da democracia]. Paper presented at III Uruguayan Congress of Political Science, Montevideo, Uruguay. Silva, Thiago. 2009. Democracy and Justice: Between Empirical and Normative Dimensions. [Democracia e justiça: entre a normatividade e a empiria]. Paper presented at IX National Congress of Political Science, Santa Fé, Argentina. Affiliation in Research Group Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance (PERG). Texas A&M University. 2013-present. Project: The PERG seeks to apply its normative commitments to the goals of full and active democratic representation, equality across the spectrum of policy programs, and efficiency and efficacy in the full array of aspects of governance within a wide variety of public policy concerns. Coordinator: Kenneth Meier (Texas A&M University). Website: http://perg.tamu.edu/perg/home.html Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). São Paulo. 2011-present. Project: Center for the Study of Political Institutions and Elections. The main goals of this research project are : (1) to analyze the patterns of interaction between Brazilian Executive and Legislative branches; (2) to analyze the performance of the Brazilian government in a comparative perspective; and (3) to analyze the effects of political institutions on the behavior of the Brazilian President and the Congressmen. Coordinators: Fernando Limongi (University of São Paulo) and Argelina Figueiredo (IESP-UERJ). Website: http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/9198575734506397
Thiago Nascimento da Silva - CV 3 Research Assistant Erica Owen. 2014. Data management in R and Stata in Brazilian firms and labor market. Diego von Vacano. 2014-2015. Data collection and management in Central American immigration and refugee situations. Guy D. Whitten. 2013-present. Data collection and management in R and Stata; Dataset construction regarding coalition governments, comparative political economy and economic voting; Collaboration on scholarly articles. Maria Escobar-Lemmon. 2013-2014. Data collection and management in R and Stata in female political representation. Duke University, Durham NC. 2013. Project: Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America. Duties: Data management and data coding. Coordinators: Dr. Nicholas Carnes (Duke University) and Dr. Noam Lupu (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Publication: Carnes, Nicholas and Noam Lupu. 2015. Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America, in American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 59, No. 1, p. 1-18. National Democratic Institute, NDI, Washington DC. 2012. Project: Case Study Research on Electronic Voting in Brazil. Duties: Data collection; Planning and conduction of interviews. Coordinators: Eka Siradze (NDI) and Daniel Hidalgo (IFES and MIT). University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley. 2011 Project: Experiment designed to measure the effects of perception of political corruption on the voting behavior of the electorate in the city of São Paulo. Duties: Data construction; Selection of participants for focus group and survey; Planning and conduction of focus groups. Coordinator: Miguel de Figueiredo (UC Berkeley). Teaching Experience 2011. Supervised Practice in Teaching. Course: Politics I. Mandatory course of Undergraduate Program in Social Science, offered by the, University of São Paulo (USP). Under the supervision of Cicero Araujo (USP). 2009. Supervised Practice in Teaching. Course: Politics I. Mandatory course of Undergraduate Program in Social Science, offered by the, University of São Paulo (USP). Under the supervision of Matthew MacLeod Taylor (American University).
Thiago Nascimento da Silva - CV 4 Research Methodology Courses and Software Skills R, Stata, HTML, LATEX, RATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series). 2015. Workshop in Empirical Modeling of Theory. Robert Franzese (University of Michigan). 2015. Time Series Analysis. B. Dan Wood (Texas A&M University). 2014. Maximum Likelihood Estimation. B. Dan Wood (Texas A&M University). 2014. Experimental Research Methods. Nehemia Geva (Texas A&M University). 2014. Game Theory. Ahmer Tarar (Texas A&M University). 2014. Quantitative Political Analysis II (Advanced Econometrics and Matrix Algebra). Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University). 2013. Quantitative Political Analysis I (Econometrics and Linear Algebra). Paul Kellstedt (Texas A&M University). 2013. Stata Programming. College Station, Stata Corp. 2013. Voting in Legislatures: From theory to data analysis. Simon Jackman (Stanford University). International Political Science Association (IPSA) 4th Annual Summer School. 2012. Quantitative Text Analysis. Inãki Sagarzazu (University of Glasgow). IPSA 3rd Annual Summer School. 2011. Multiple Regression Analysis. Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University). IPSA 2nd Annual Summer School. 2011. Quantitative Methods for Political Science and IR. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda (University of São Paulo). 2011. Statistical Programming in R. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda (University of São Paulo). 2010. Basic Statistics for Social Sciences and IR. Center for Studies in International Negotiations Ltda (University of São Paulo). Grants and Scholarship 2011-2013. Ph.D. Scholarship by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education. 2008-2011. Master Scholarship by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education. 2012. Research Division s Funds of the University of São Paulo to attend and present a paper at the 70th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA. 2010. s Funds of the University of São Paulo to attend and present a paper at the 5th Latin American Conference of Political Science, Argentina. 2010. s Funds of the University of São Paulo to attend and present a paper at the 3rd Uruguayan Conference of Political Science, Uruguay.
Thiago Nascimento da Silva - CV 5 Professional Memberships American Political Science Association, Member Brazilian Political Science Association, Member International Political Science Association, Member International Studies Association, Member Latin American Studies Association, Member Midwest Political Science Association, Member Southern Political Science Association, Member Other Refereeing Revista Innovar. Journal of Administrative and Social Sciences, National University of Colombia. Leviathan. Graduate Journal of Political Science, University of São Paulo. Primeiros Estudos. Undergraduate Journal of Social Sciences, University of São Paulo. Languages English, Portuguese and Spanish. References Guy D. Whitten Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4348, USA (979) 845-0297 whitten@polisci.tamu.edu Fernando Limongi University of São Paulo São Paulo, SP 05508-900, Brazil +55 (11) 3091-3780 fdmplimo@usp.br Jose Antonio Cheibub University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA (217) 265-7881 cheibub@illinois.edu Last updated: August 24, 2015 http://people.tamu.edu/ nsthiago/