ABOUT
I am Catarina, a 4th-year Political Science Ph.D. candidate at UC San Diego. I am broadly interested in Political Economy and Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Latin America. My dissertation revolves around compulsory voting laws and other reforms that affect electoral behavior. I am motivated by the challenges democracies face by design, such as low and unequal participation and disproportional representation.
CV
RESEARCH
Peer-Reviewed Research
Freire, D., Mignozzetti, U., Roman, C., & Alptekin, H. (2023). The effect of legislature size on public spending: A meta-analysis. British Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 776-788.
Baracho, L. F., Roman, C., França, G. T., Favalle, F. B., Sacramento, C. D. D., & Fernandes, I. F. (2023). Brazilian foreign policy in the press: an exploratory study on the framing of the main Brazilian newspapers. Revista de Sociologia e Política, 31, e010.
Working Papers
The Introduction of Compulsory Voting Laws
Forced Participation and Mobilization Campaigning: Does Compulsory Voting Reduce the Role of Money in Politics?
TEACHING
Computational Social Science
Latex Crash Course
This is the code and material for an invited talk at the 2023 Fall Computational Social Science Seminar at UC San Diego.
RMarkdown + git Crash Course
This is a mini-course I offered as a part of the training fellowship promoted by the Brazil, the Americas, and the World research group, funded by The São Paulo Research Foundation. Below are the two 1-hour sessions offered in Portuguese, on February 15th and 22nd, 2021.
Political Science
Instructor
Co-Instructor in Introduction to Comparative Politics (POLI 11D at UCSD), Summer Session II 2024
Teaching Assistant
See CV for details.
PROJECTS
Natural Resources and Policy Choices in Latin America
Natural Resources and Policy Choices in Latin America is the product of a collaboration between Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the editors Giovanna França, Dr Danilo Freire, and Prof Umberto Mignozzetti.
In this project, I was a research assistant and took active part in all steps of the writing and editing process.
Below, you will find a .pdf copy of the book. I hope you enjoy the reading!