Welcome!
I am a Lecturer at the School of Politics & International Relations and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism at the Australian National University. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University, USA, and my M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. From 2019-2022 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
I have an active research agenda in comparative politics, with an emphasis on political institutions and political economy. My research addresses the institutional variations of democracies and their consequences on who gets to govern, how governments formulate and enact their policies, and how governments die. In my recent research projects, I examine how power is distributed among coalition governments in presidential and parliamentary democracies and its consequences on party competition, voter behaviour, and opposition behaviour. Additionally, I am conducting research to examine the intricate relationship between democracy and human rights, with a particular emphasis on understanding the impact of human rights violations on democratic breakdown. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, and others.
On this website you can find an overview of my published and current research, teaching materials, and scripts for both R and LaTeX. Here are the links to my CV and my Google Scholar page.
2023. Thiago Nascimento da Silva.
E-mail: Thiago.Silva@anu.edu.au