BEATRIZ REY
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Dissertation
My dissertation identifies and explains in-country variation in individual legislative effectiveness in Latin America. I document this variation by adapting Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman's Legislative Effectiveness Score (LES) to the context of Brazil’s lower house (i.e., Chamber of Deputies). I propose that association with legislative member organizations (LMOs) is a key factor in explaining legislative effectiveness in fragmented party systems with less programmatic parties. LMOs are voluntary, cross-party organizations comprised of lawmakers who share a common interest in a topic. To examine this claim, the project adopts a mixed-methods approach with original data collected from extensive in-country fieldwork. Statistical analysis shows that legislators who belong to select LMOs are more effective than their peers who do not associate with those groups. Qualitative analysis - including data from interviews with more than 80 politicians and staff, congressional archives, and participant observation notes - unpacks the mechanisms through which LMOs increase effectiveness. In particular, I process trace the lawmaking activities of legislators who belong to the rural, public security, and evangelical organizations in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. 

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.

Works in Progress
  • "Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America: The Role of Legislative Member Organizations in Latin America" (Working Paper)
  • "Religion in Congress: The Effectiveness of Evangelical Lawmakers in Brazil and Mexico" (Working Paper)
  • "Financial Resources and Framing: The Case of the Gun Control Referendum in Brazil"
  • "Teaching with Data: Understanding the Instruction of Qualitative Research Methods in the Social, Education, and Health Sciences," with Diana Kapiszewski, Sebastian Karcher, and Jessica Lester. 
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