Research
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Published
Berman EM, Lotta GS, Grin EJ, Abrucio FL, Gonzalez LE, Souza MG, Melo YM, Santos JG (2025). Brazil’s Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion. Public Admnistration Review, Online First.
Mota FP, Santos JG, Silva MA (2025) E-gov for whom? Profile and challenges for non-users in the Brazilian context. Information Development, 41(1).
Santos JG, Silva ALN, Melo CMO, Melo YM (2022). Intermunicipal cooperation in the National Environmental Policy: do state capacities matter?. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 56(6).
Santos JG, Mota FPB (2022). Institutional Dimensions Associated With Government Data Openness: A Transnational Analysis. E-Legis, 15(38).
Santos JG, Mota FPB (2021). Government transparency in times of Covid-19: reflections from the Brazilian context. Revista Eletrônica Gestão e Sociedade, 14(39).
Barbosa JDS, Mota FPB, Santos JG, Menezes HBS, Silva MA (2022). DIGITAL DIVIDE: an analysis based on the profile of internet users and electronic government in Brazil. Interface, 19(1).
Working Paper
Santos JG, Grin EJ (2023). Capacidades Estatais: O Perfil Metodológico da Produção Empírica Nacional (2010-2023). Presented at the ANPOCS annual meeting (2023) (Under Review).
PhD Dissertation paper: When Politics Hinder Collaboration: Political Competition and the Timing of Inter-Municipal Cooperation Decisions. First version presented at Writing Academy Workshop.
PhD Dissertation paper: How Inter-municipal Cooperation Spreads: A Comparative Explanation Across Policy Domains under Federal Induction. First version presented at ECPR Euroloc Summer School on Local Government & Politics (2024).
Work in progress
Paper: The Politics of Climate Evidence: Sensemaking and Data Mobilisation in Brazilian Local Governments. With Aquino MA, Soares FJ, Miron G.
Paper: Institutionalising Adaptive Climate Governance in Local Governments: Between Policy Design and Operational Capacity. With Soares FJ, Aquino MA, Miron G.
Paper: Fragmented Structures, Fragmented Evidence: Policy Integration and Evidence-Based Climate Governance in Multilevel Settings. With Soares FJ, Aquino MA, Miron G.
Paper: Reelections and the Politics of Patronage at Municipal Level: Evidence from Brazilian Local Governments.
Paper: Bureaucracy, Political Appointments and Patronage: An Brief Overview.
Paper: Transparency at local Level: Vertical Diffusion and Institutionalization of Municipal Freedom of Informations Laws in Brazilian Federalism. With Barreto RTS.
Paper: Modern Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study Designs for Public Administration Research. With Antunes C.
Paper: Small-n research, observations, and inference approaches: reflections on case study-based research.
Book chapters
Grin EJ, JG Santos, Melo CMO. Much stability, some change, and fewer mechanisms in historical institutionalism In Policy Process Frameworks in Practice: Critical Analysis from Brazil and Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming June 2026.