My research addresses topics related to legislative politics and political parties. In addition to my publications and projects listed below, I also work with the Brazilian Policy Agendas, a part of the Comparative Agendas Project that investigates policymaking trends across time. My work has received funding from the Rotary Foundation, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and the Program on the Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) at Syracuse University.
Dissertation
What determines legislative effectiveness in Latin America? My dissertation examines the role of legislative member organizations (LMOs) on legislative effectiveness in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. To this end, the project employs a multi-method approach that includes statistical analysis of a custom database and three case studies that draw on in-depth elite interviews. For my quantitative analysis, I adapt the work of Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman on measuring legislative effectiveness to the context of Brazil. For my qualitative analysis, I examine the functioning and role of three legislative member organizations: the rural, public security, and evangelical organizations.
Publications
Other Projects
Dissertation
What determines legislative effectiveness in Latin America? My dissertation examines the role of legislative member organizations (LMOs) on legislative effectiveness in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. To this end, the project employs a multi-method approach that includes statistical analysis of a custom database and three case studies that draw on in-depth elite interviews. For my quantitative analysis, I adapt the work of Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman on measuring legislative effectiveness to the context of Brazil. For my qualitative analysis, I examine the functioning and role of three legislative member organizations: the rural, public security, and evangelical organizations.
Publications
- Baumgartner, Frank R., Marcello Carammia, Derek A. Epp, Ben Noble, Beatriz Rey, and Tevfik Murat Yildirim. "Budgetary change in authoritarian and democratic regimes." Journal of European Public Policy 24, no. 6 (2017): 792-808.
- Rey, Beatriz. "Horizontal social movements and agenda-setting: evidence from Brazil." Agenda Política 4, no. 1 (2016): 130-151.
Other Projects
- "Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America: The Role of Legislative Member Organizations in Brazil, 2011-2018" (Working Paper)
- "Legislative Effectiveness in a Comparative Perspective: Adapting the Legislative Effectiveness Score (LES) outside the United States" (Working Paper)
- "Religion in Congress: The Evangelical Bloc in Brazil" (Working Paper)
- “Candidate Selection Methods: A Study of New Parties in Mexico” (Working Paper co-authored with Matthew R. Cleary)