Browsing by Author "Zucco Júnior, César"
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Are conditional government transfers a politically acceptable form of redistribution?
2017This paper examines whether characteristics of government transfers that do not affect actual levels of redistribution affect support for such transfers. We employ survey experiments in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Turkey ... -
Crafting mass partisanship at the grass roots
2015-10What are the sources of mass partisanship? The focus of this article is on the role of party organizational strategies in Brazil, where sociological cleavages are weak. All Brazilian parties post electoral gains by opening ... -
Do governments make dreams come true? An analysis of the minha casa minha vida housing program
2018-10-31What are the attitudinal effects of being awarded homeownership by the government? In this paper we examine whether being selected as the beneficiary of a large public housing program affects beneficiaries-to-be political ... -
Os efeitos da casa própria: uma avaliação do MCMV
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Exogenous shocks and misattribution of responsibility for economic performance: results from survey experiments
2015-11-14Recent models of economic voting assume that citizens can discount exogenous factors when assessing government's economic performance. Yet there is evidence that Latin American voters do not behave in such way, and attribute ... -
The impacts of conditional cash transfers in four presidential elections (2002-2014)
2015-04-01This research note examines the electoral impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the 2014 presidential election, and compares these to results previously obtained for the preceding three elections (ZUCCO, 2013). ... -
Measuring portfolio salience using paired comparisons: a new application of the Bradley-Terry model
2018-03-26We propose measuring portfolio salience by analyzing paired comparisons data using the Bradley-Terry model. Paired-comparison data are easy to collect using surveys that are userfriendly, rapid, and inexpensive, and we ... -
The power of partisanship in Brazil: evidence from survey experiments
2014-01To what extent do party labels influence individuals' policy positions? Much research has examined this question in the United States, where party identification can generate both in-group and out-group pressures to conform ... -
Presidential success and the world economy
2016-04Economic voting is a widely accepted regularity in the political science literature, yet most work on the subject either assumes that economic performance is a direct result of policy making or, more recently, argues that ... -
Sessão I – Melhores Práticas em Pesquisa
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Trading old errors for new errors? The impact of electronic voting technology on party label votes in Brazil
2016-09In the mid-1990s, Brazil introduced electronic voting technology that reduced residual ballots and consequently expanded de facto enfranchisement. We employ a regression discontinuity design similar to that of previous ... -
When payouts pay off: conditional cash transfers and voting behavior in Brazil 2002-10
2013-10This article estimates the electoral effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in three presidential elections in Brazil. It analyzes municipal-level electoral results and survey data and employs matching techniques to ...
