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    • Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil 

      Alston, Lee J.; Melo, Marcus André B. C. de; Mueller, Bernardo Pinheiro Machado; Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira
      2013
      We link a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge, to the recent literature on beliefs, and argue that changes in beliefs may shift the equilibrium over time. We present evidence that ...
    • Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Policy Stability in Latin America 

      Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira; Singh, Shane P.; Mueller, Bernardo Pinheiro Machado
      2011
      In some Latin American nations, policy change occurs frequently, while in others it is stable, less prone to shifts with the prevailing political climate or shocks. The conditions under which institutional rules and the ...
    • O que é que o reeleito tem? O retorno: o esboço de uma teoria da reeleição no Brasil 

      Rennó Junior, Lúcio Remuzat; Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira
      2007
      What does the reelected have? The return: the outline of a reelection theory in Brazil. This article compares the determinants of electoral success in two consecutive Brazilian legislative elections, 1998 and 2002. There ...