Cesar Zucco Jr.

Cesar Zucco Jr.
Funda¸c˜ao Get´
ulio Vargas
Escola Brasileira de Administra¸c˜ao P´
ublica e de Empresas
Praia de Botafogo 190, Sala 532, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 22250-900
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.fgv.br/professor/cesar.zucco/
Academic Appointments
• Assistant Professor: EBAPE, Funda¸c˜ao Get´
ulio Vargas (2013–present)
• Assistant Professor: Political Science Department, Rutgers University (2011–present, on leave)
• Lecturer in Politics and International Affairs: Princeton University (2009–2011)
• Fellow: Program on Democracy, Yale University (Spring 2010)
• Visiting Professor: Rio de Janeiro Graduate Research Institute—IUPERJ (2008–2009)
• Fellow: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University (2007–2008)
Education
• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles (Sep 2007)
• Master in Political Science, Instituto Universit´ario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Dec 2000)
• Bachelor of Laws, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (April 1999)
Peer Reviewed Publications
• “Crafting Mass Partisanship at the Grass Roots, from the Top Down.” British Journal of
Political Science, (Forthcoming 2015, with David Samuels)
• “Lulismo, Petismo, and the Future of Brazilian Politics.” ( Journal of Politics in Latin America.
6(3):129–158. (2014, with David Samuels)
• “The Strength of Party Labels in Brazil: Evidence from Survey Experiments.” American Journal of Political Science, 58(1):212–225. (2014, with David Samuels)
• “When Pay Outs Pay Off: Conditional Cash-Transfers and Voting Behavior in Brazil 2002–
2010.” American Journal of Political Science, 57(4):810–822. (2013)
• “Bolsa Fam´ılia and the Shift in Lula’s Electoral Base, 2002–2006.” Latin American Research
Review, 48(2):3–24. (2013, with Timothy Power)
• “Legislative Coalitions in Presidential Systems: The Case of Uruguay.” Latin American Politics
and Society, 55(1):96–118. (2013)
• “Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990–
2009.” Latin American Politics and Society, 54(4):1–27. (2012, with Timothy Power)
• “Distinguishing Between Influences on Brazilian Legislative Behavior” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36(3):363–396. (2011, with Benjamin Lauderdale)
• “Ideology or What? Legislative Behavior in Multiparty Presidential Settings” The Journal of
Politics, 71(3):1076–1092. (2009)
• “Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties, 1990–2005” Latin American Research Review, 44(1): 218–246. (2009, with Timothy Power)
Cesar Zucco Jr.
• “The President’s ‘New’ Constituency: Lula and the Pragmatic Vote in Brazil’s 2006 Presidential
Election,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 40:29–49. (2008)
• “Where’s the Bias? A Reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System,” Electoral Studies, 26:303–
314. (2007)
Other Publications
• “Conjuntura desfavor´
avel, estrutura nem tanto.” Valor Econˆomico, Jun/6/2014
• “O Congresso por ele mesmo.” UFMG Press, Belo Horizonte. (2011, co-edited with Timothy
Power)
– “Introdu¸c˜
ao: Ouvindo os Pr´
oprios Parlamentares” p.11–36. (with Timothy Power)
– “Esquerda, Direita e Governo: A ideologia dos partidos pol´ıticos brasileiros” p.37–60.
– “Conclus˜
ao: Avaliando o Congresso Brasileiro” p.305–308. (with Timothy Power)
• “A esquerda em um pa´ıs democr´
atico, globalizado e desigual: Uma an´alise do Brasil de Lula”
In Moreira, Carlos et al (orgs.), La Nueva pol´ıtica en Am´erica Latina: rupturas y continuidades.
Trilice, Montevideo, p.97–124. (2008, with Daniela Campello)
• “O Eleitorado Governista.” O Globo, Nov/7/2006, p.7
Working Papers and Papers Under Review
• “Using Facebook as a Subject Recruitment Tool for Survey-Experimental Research” (with David
Samuels, working paper)
• “Merit or Luck? International Determinants of Presidential Performance in Latin America”
(with Daniela Campello, under review)
• “Conditionality and Support for Redistributive Transfers: Results from Observational and
Survey-Experimental Studies” (working paper)
• “The Political Economy of Ordinary Politics: Presidents and Legislatures in Multiparty Settings” (with Paulo Melo-Filho, working paper)
Competitive Fellowships and Grants
• Global Development Network’s “Global Research Competition” 2013 (with J.P. Luna and Gokce
Baykal). “Are conditional government transfers a politically acceptable form of redistribution”
($ 37.5k)
• Inter-American Development Bank. Grant for collaborative panel survey project with Fabiana
Machado and Lucio Renn´
o. “Poverty, Inequality and the Political Prospects of Social Policies
in Brazil” 2014 ($ 60k)
• Fellowship for Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study 2013–2014 (Declined )
• Rutgers University, Research Council Grant 2012–2013 ($ 3k)
• Rutgers University, Faculty Research Grant 2012–2013 ($ 23k)
• Inter-American Development Bank. Grant for collaborative panel survey project with Fabiana
Machado and Lucio Renn´
o. “Poverty, Inequality and the Political Prospects of Social Policies
in Brazil” Fall 2010 ($ 40k)
• Yale–MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Program on Democracy, Postdoctoral Fellowship Spring 2010
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• CNPq–Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008–09
• Princeton University–Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007–
08
• Oxford University–Nuffield College. Prize Posdoctoral Research Fellowship 2007 (Declined )
• UCLA–Graduate Division. Dissertation Year Fellowship 2006–07
• UCLA–Graduate Division. Mentored Teaching Fellowship 2005–06
• UCLA–Latin American Center. Small Grant for Field Research 2005
• Social Sciences Research Council. International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005–06
• UCLA–Latin American Center. Small Grant for Field Research 2003
• CAPES–Brazilian Ministry of Education. Scholarship for Doctoral Studies Abroad 2001–05
• FAPERJ–State of Rio de Janeiro Research Agency. Prize Scholarship for Graduate Studies
(“Bolsa Nota 10”) 2000–01
• CAPES–Brazilian Ministry of Education. Scholarship for Studies at the MA Level 1999–00
• CAPES–Brazilian Ministry of Education. Special Training Program (“PET”) 1994–96
Invited Talks
• “Panorama Eleitoral para Outubro 2014,” Seminar on the Brazilian 2014 Presidential Election,
Instituto Brasileiro de Economia, July 2014
• “Por que algumas formas de redistribui¸c˜ao s˜ao mais populares do que outras?”
– Graduate program in Sociology, UFRGS, Nov. 2013
– Graduate program in Social Sciences, UNICAMP, Nov. 2013
• “O que explica o sucesso (reelei¸c˜
ao e popularidade) de presidentes?” FGV-CEO, Nov. 2013
• “A Influˆencia do Cen´
ario Econˆ
omico Externo na Elei¸c˜oes Presidenciais,” Roundtable on the
Brazilian Presidential Election of 2014, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 2013
• “International Determinants of Presidential Performance in Latin America,” Inter-American
Development Bank, June 2013
• “The World Economy and the Popularity of Brazilian Presidents,” Emergent Brazil Conference,
University of Florida, Feb. 2013
• “On Redistribution and Backlash”
– Columbia University, SIPA Brazil Seminar, April 2012
– Cornell University, LASP, Feb 2012
– Senarc—MDS, Brazilian Social Development Ministry, July 2011
– IADB, Brazilian Electoral Panel Study Workshop, May 2011
– Columbia University, ILAS Workshop “Beyond Poverty Alleviation?: Evolving Welfare
Regimes And Declining Inequality in Post-Neoliberal Latin America,” April 2011
• “The Crafting of Mass Partisanship in Brazil,” University of Oxford, Workshop “PT from Lula
to Dilma,” Jan 2012
• “Conditional Cash Transfers and Voting Behavior”
– Princeton University, CSDP, Feb 2011
– Rutgers University, Dec 2010
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– Claremont Graduate University, Nov 2010
– Columbia University, Comparative Politics Seminar, Oct 2010
– University of New Orleans, Sep 2010
• “Poor Places and Poor Voters”
– University of Oxford, Workshop on Political Consequences of the Reduction of Inequality
in Brazil, Dec 2010
– Cebrap, S˜
ao Paulo, International Seminar Metropolis and Inequalities, Mar 2010
• “An empirical assessment of the political impacts of the Bolsa Fam´ılia program”
– Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Feb 2010
– Yale Comparative Politics Seminar, Jan 2010
– World Bank Social Safety Nets Group, Dec 2009
• “Left, Right, and Government: The Ideology of Brazilian Political Parties,” University of Oxford,
Workshop on Legislator Views of Brazilian Governance, Sep 2009
• “Parties Without Roots: Party system institutionalization in Brazil,” Fundaci´on CIDOB, Barcelona, Workshop on Party System Institutionalization in Latin America, Dec 2008
• “Ideology or What? Executive Legislative Relations in Multiparty Presidential Systems”
– University of Miami, International Development Studies, Dec 2007
– University at Albany-SUNY, Political Science Department, Oct 2007
– Caltech, Division of Social Sciences, Oct 2007
• “The Political Economy of Ordinary Politics”
– UC Riverside, Political Science Department, Nov 2007
– Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Feb 2007
Recent Conference Papers
• II International Conference on Comparative Presidential Studies and Presidentialism, Belo Horizonte, Nov 2014: “Triangulating the Electoral Effects of Bolsa Fam´ılia: A study of the last four
Brazilian presidential elections”
• ECPR — European Consortium for Political Research, Glasgow, Sep 2014: “Conditionality and
Support for Government Transfers: Results from Observational and Experimental Studies”
• APSA — American Political Science Association, Washington, Aug 2014: “Conditionality and
Support for Government Transfers: Results from Observational and Experimental Studies”
• ABCP — Brazilian Political Studies Association, Bras´ılia, Aug 2014: “The New Meaning of Left
and Right in Brazil: An Analysis of the Ideology of Political Elites since Redemocratization”
• IPES — International Political Economy Society, Claremont, Oct 2013: “Merit, Luck, and
the Exogenous Determinants of Government Success” (non-presenting author, with Daniela
Campello)
• ECPR — European Consortium for Political Research, Bordeaux, Sep 2013: “The Power of
Partisanship in Brazil: Observational and Experimental Evidence” (with David Samuels)
• IPES — International Political Economy Society, Charlottesville, Nov 2012: “It’s the (World)
Economy, Stupid! International Economic Cycles and Presidents’ Popularity” (non-presenting
author, with Daniela Campello)
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• APSA — American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Sep 2012: “Does Conditionality
Increase Support for Redistributive Transfers?” (cancelled due to hurricane Isaac)
• APSA — American Political Science Association, Seattle, Sep 2011: “The Strength of Party Labels in Brazil: Evidence from Survey Experiments” (non-presenting author, with David Samuels)
• ECPR — European Consortium for Political Research, Reykjavik, Aug 2011: “Mapping the
Brazilian Political Class, 1990-2009: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys” (non-presenting author,
with Timothy Power)
• APSA — American Political Science Association, Washington, Sep 2010:
– Conditional Cash Transfers and Voting Behavior: Redistribution and Clientelism in Poor
and Unequal Democracies
– The Roots of Petismo 1989–2010 (with David Samuels)
• ABCP — Brazilian Political Studies Association, Recife, Aug 2010: “Esquerda, Direita e Governo: A ideologia dos partidos pol´ıticos brasileiros”
• APSA — American Political Science Association, Toronto, Sep 2009:
– Making Votes Talk (with Ben Lauderdale)
– Cash-transfers, Voting Behavior, and the Economy
• PSA — Political Studies Association, Manchester, Apr 2009: “Cash-transfers, Voting Behavior,
and the Economy”
• ABCP — Brazilian Political Science Association, Campinas, Aug 2008: “Comportamento e
Ideologia no Legislativo Brasileiro”
• FLACSO – Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Conference, Quito, Oct 2007: “El
Brasil de Lula: ¿Assistencialismo y Elecciones?”
• LASA – Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sep 2007: “Legislative Capitalism:
Governing after Reforms”
• APSA – American Political Science Association, Chicago, Aug 2007: “A Formal Model and
Empirical Assessment of Presidential-Legislative Relations in Multiparty Settings”
• MPSA – Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Apr 2007:
– Controlling Congress: A model of spoils distribution in presidential multiparty systems
(with Paulo Melo-Filho)
– Ideology or What? On ideal points, ideological cleavages, and legislative behavior in Brazil
Teaching
• Funda¸c˜ao Get´
ulio Vargas: Statistics 1B—Research Design (Graduate, 2014-2); Comparative
Political Institutions (Graduate, 2014-2); The Politics of Inequality and Poverty Reduction
(Graduate, 2014-1)
• Rutgers University: 790:599:2 Introduction to Causal Analysis (Graduate, Spring 2012); 790:357
Comparative Political Institutions (Undergraduate, Fall 2011 & 2012); and 790:395:5 The Politics of Inequality and Poverty Reduction (Undergraduate, Fall 2011 & 2012)
• Princeton University: WWS-501 The Politics of Public Policy (Team taught, Graduate, Fall
2009 & 2010); POL-350 Research Methods in Political Science (Undergraduate, Fall 2009 &
2010)
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• IUPERJ (Graduate Level Teaching): Short course on “Research Design in Political Science”
(2011); Latin-American Politics (2009); short course on “Basic Statistics” (2009); short course
on “Introduction to Maximum Likelihood” (2009); U.S. Politics (2008)
• UCLA Teaching Fellow (i.e. lead-instructor): “Presidents, Economic Reforms, and Political
Strategy in Latin America” (Undergraduate, Spring 2006)
• UCLA Teaching Assistant: Media and Elections (to Prof. Tim Groseclose, Spring 2005); Quantitative Methods II (Graduate Level, to Prof. Jeff Lewis, Winter 2005); Latin American Politics
(to Prof. Barbara Geddes, Spring & Fall 2004); Intro to Game Theory (to Prof. Barry O’Neil,
Winter 2003); Intro to Political Theory (to Prof. Brian Walker, Fall 2002);
• UNESA — Brazil: International Public Law (2001-1); Theory of the State (2001-1)
• Mini-courses:
– UFRGS, Graduate Program in Sociology — Brazil: “Empirical Research Designs in Political Science” (Graduate, Nov 2013)
– CEFOR, Cˆ
amara dos Deputados — Brazil: “Empirical Research Designs in Political Science” (Graduate, April 2013)
– Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Pol´ıticos — Brazil: “Empirical Research Designs in Political
Science” (Graduate, July 2011)
– Federal University of Piau´ı — Brazil: “Introduction to Research Design” (Graduate,
April 2007)
– Universidad de la Rep´
ublica — Uruguay: “The power of presidents: Political uses of nonpolicy resources” (Graduate, Sep 2005)
Languages
• Portuguese: Native Speaker
• English: Highly Proficient
• Spanish: Proficient
Service
• Member of APSA, MPSA, LASA and ABCP
• Referee for American Journal of Political Science (5), American Political Science Review (2),
An´alise Social, Brazilian Political Science Review (2), British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies (2), Comparative Politics (2), Dados (4), Economic Journal, Electoral
Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies (4), Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin
America, Latin American Politics and Society (3), Latin American Research Review (2), Legislative Studies Quarterly (2), Party Politics, Pol´ıtica y Gobierno, Political Analysis, Political
Behavior, Revista de Estudios Sociales, Revista de Sociologia e Pol´ıtica, Opini˜ao P´
ublica (5), Revista Uruguaya de Ci´encia Pol´ıtica, Studies in Comparative International Development, World
Development, and World Politics (2)
Academic References
• Prof. Barbara Geddes (UCLA)
• Prof. Timothy Groseclose (George Mason)
• Prof. Jeffrey Lewis (UCLA)
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• Prof. Octavio Amorim Neto (FVG-RJ/Brazil)
• Prof. Robert Kaufman (Rutgers)
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