Lucas Couto

Hard to compete with Rio to be fair 😨. Hope you are enjoying your stay so far!

I hope you've enjoyed the *best* city in Brazil (if nothing else, at least its architectural scene 😅). And what a time to be in Brasília! You probably caught one of the most politically heated days/weeks of the year!

Full-Power Cabinets and Caretaker Administrations in Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-2024 | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

As one does, I spent many evenings walking around the golf course in College Station, TX thinking about caretaker periods. A lot of that thinking went into this new JOP article co-authored with José Cheibub: doi.org/10.1086/738892

That seems fantastic, Francesco! Much congrats!! Super eager to read it!

Congrats! Pretty cool game!

Parabéns!

Ouch, worrying... I'd have expected at least some local media reports after "localised" climate crises, such as the wildfires in the wetlands of southwestern Brazil or in the forests of Chile, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I think that it speaks even more to the importance of your project!

Pretty interesting, Anthony! But it’s also pretty sad to see that there’s barely any reporting across Latin America 😵‍💫. I hope you have a great discussion at both conferences!

Yesterday, I did my second DHL relay race with an amazing team: @henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @lindekilde.bsky.social, C. Green-Pedersen, & @lucascoutoz.bsky.social.

I had the goal of running the 5k below 21 minutes & came in at 20:34, my new personal record. Now looking forward to the 2026 race! 😊

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.

As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

The landscape and the view in Rio are unparalleled, but I'm not personally so fond of the sea air, which is more of a "me" problem. I also have a soft spot for the variety of things to do in SP. Ultimately, personal preferences play a major role here, as both cities offer very different experiences.

That's great news! I hope you can enjoy your time in Latin America! Interesting to see on which side of the turf war between Rio and São Paulo you will be 👀

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Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis - cup.org/4mm8b7m

- @paduis.bsky.social, Jennifer Cyr, Julieta Suárez-Cao & Matías Bianchi

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Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties? Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That was a nice read! Really enjoyed the connection to Andrews-Lee's recent book. Congrats!!

Parabéns pela publicacao! Belo desenho de pesquisa!!!

Cool research and pretty alluvial plot! Congrats!!

Handbook on Coalition Politics

To be published this autumn 👇

Congrats!!

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

Congrats!

Belo mapa!

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️

25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

Pretty cool research! Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Depressive to see some LatAm parties scoring highly on both dimensions; even more for Ecuador, where the current presidential run-off features two parties that that would likely rank high on these two factors as well 😵‍💫

Now, it's been attributed to an issue and has got its page numbers 😀

doi.org/10.1017/lap....

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