D Freire
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34347 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Freire |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Freire |
| ASSINATURA | FREIRE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4712-6810 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Social Well‐Being in an Unsettled World
Marking the 75th anniversary of the International Social Science Journal , this Special Issue examines social well‐being in an era of intersecting crises that deepen inequality, climate disruption, demographic ageing, forced displacement, digital saturation, and changing family and community life. Engaging in dialogue with diverse scholarly perspectives from economics, sustainability studies, psychology, sociology, politics and social work, the i…
Legislature size and welfare
How does legislature size impact public service provision? Despite the importance of institutional design for democratic governance, the effect of legislative features on citizen welfare remains little understood. In this article, we use a formal model to show that increasing legislature size improves public goods delivery. We argue that changes in bargaining costs depend on whether additional legislators share the executive's party affiliation: …
Vigilantism and Institutions
Why do people support extrajudicial violence? In two survey experiments with respondents in Brazil, we examine which characteristics of lynching scenarios garner greater support for lynching and whether providing different types of information about lynching reduces support for it. We find that people often do support community members to take vengeance. In particular, our analysis finds that people strongly support the use of extrajudicial viole…
The Effect of Legislature Size on Public Spending
In path-breaking work, Weingast et al. argue that there is a positive relationship between legislature size and inefficiency in public expenditures. Their proposition is currently known as the ‘law of 1/n’ and has been widely debated in political science and public administration. However, recent studies have questioned the validity of the theory. In this letter, we conduct the first meta-analysis that assesses the generality of the ‘law of 1/n’.…
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil
Although Brazil remains severely affected by civil violence, the state of São Paulo has made significant inroads into fighting criminality. In the last decade, São Paulo has witnessed a 70 percent decline in homicide rates, a result that policy-makers attribute to a series of crime-reducing measures implemented by the state government. While recent academic studies seem to confirm this downward trend, no estimation of the total impact of state po…
Bottom-up accountability and public service provision
Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app prompts users to submit data about construction sites, sends such crowdsourced information to independent engineers, and contacts the mayors’ offices about project delays. Our results show that the app has a null impact on school construction indic…
Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies
Which institutional features do Latin American elites favor for local climate change policies? Climate change mitigation requires active local-level implementation, but it remains unclear which institutional arrangements maximize support for environmental rules. In this paper, we run a conjoint experiment with elite members of 10 Latin American countries and ask respondents to evaluate institutional designs drawn from a pool of 5,500 possible loc…
Congressbr
In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform cleaning data operations, and store information in a format convenient for future analyses, making a previously difficult task fast and convenient. C…
Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals? Private Governance in Brazil's Jogo do Bicho
A rational-choice account of Brazil's jogo do bicho (animal game), possibly the largest illegal lottery game in the world, examines the mechanisms that have fostered the lottery's notable growth outside the boundaries of Brazilian law and reveals how animal-game financiers combine costly signals and selective incentives to induce cooperation from members of the community and exploit the fragmentation of Brazil's political system to advance their …
Causal Inference, Shaolin Style
The Path From Cause to
Os regimes políticos e as guerras civis
A guerra civil é uma das formas de violência coletiva mais importante de nossa época. Embora a literatura tenha destacado a relação entre determinadas variáveis e o início das guerras civis, a influência dos regimes políticos nos conflitos internos ainda é controversa. O presente estudo visa colaborar para esse debate. Os objetivos deste artigo são: discutir as definições contemporâneas de guerras civis; avaliar, criticamente, as bases quantitati…
Legislature size and welfare
How does legislature size impact public service provision? Despite the importance of institutional design for democratic governance, the effect of legislative features on citizen welfare remains little understood. In this article, we use a formal model to show that increasing legislature size improves public goods delivery. We argue that changes in bargaining costs depend on whether additional legislators share the executive's party affiliation: …
The Effect of Legislature Size on Public Spending
In path-breaking work, Weingast et al. argue that there is a positive relationship between legislature size and inefficiency in public expenditures. Their proposition is currently known as the ‘law of 1/n’ and has been widely debated in political science and public administration. However, recent studies have questioned the validity of the theory. In this letter, we conduct the first meta-analysis that assesses the generality of the ‘law of 1/n’.…
Vigilantism and Institutions
Why do people support extrajudicial violence? In two survey experiments with respondents in Brazil, we examine which characteristics of lynching scenarios garner greater support for lynching and whether providing different types of information about lynching reduces support for it. We find that people often do support community members to take vengeance. In particular, our analysis finds that people strongly support the use of extrajudicial viole…
Bottom-up accountability and public service provision
Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app prompts users to submit data about construction sites, sends such crowdsourced information to independent engineers, and contacts the mayors’ offices about project delays. Our results show that the app has a null impact on school construction indic…
Os regimes políticos e as guerras civis
A guerra civil é uma das formas de violência coletiva mais importante de nossa época. Embora a literatura tenha destacado a relação entre determinadas variáveis e o início das guerras civis, a influência dos regimes políticos nos conflitos internos ainda é controversa. O presente estudo visa colaborar para esse debate. Os objetivos deste artigo são: discutir as definições contemporâneas de guerras civis; avaliar, criticamente, as bases quantitati…
Causal Inference, Shaolin Style
The Path From Cause to
Congressbr
In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform cleaning data operations, and store information in a format convenient for future analyses, making a previously difficult task fast and convenient. C…
Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals? Private Governance in Brazil's Jogo do Bicho
A rational-choice account of Brazil's jogo do bicho (animal game), possibly the largest illegal lottery game in the world, examines the mechanisms that have fostered the lottery's notable growth outside the boundaries of Brazilian law and reveals how animal-game financiers combine costly signals and selective incentives to induce cooperation from members of the community and exploit the fragmentation of Brazil's political system to advance their …
Bottom-up accountability and public service provision
Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app prompts users to submit data about construction sites, sends such crowdsourced information to independent engineers, and contacts the mayors’ offices about project delays. Our results show that the app has a null impact on school construction indic…
Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies
Which institutional features do Latin American elites favor for local climate change policies? Climate change mitigation requires active local-level implementation, but it remains unclear which institutional arrangements maximize support for environmental rules. In this paper, we run a conjoint experiment with elite members of 10 Latin American countries and ask respondents to evaluate institutional designs drawn from a pool of 5,500 possible loc…
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil
Although Brazil remains severely affected by civil violence, the state of São Paulo has made significant inroads into fighting criminality. In the last decade, São Paulo has witnessed a 70 percent decline in homicide rates, a result that policy-makers attribute to a series of crime-reducing measures implemented by the state government. While recent academic studies seem to confirm this downward trend, no estimation of the total impact of state po…
Vigilantism and Institutions
Why do people support extrajudicial violence? In two survey experiments with respondents in Brazil, we examine which characteristics of lynching scenarios garner greater support for lynching and whether providing different types of information about lynching reduces support for it. We find that people often do support community members to take vengeance. In particular, our analysis finds that people strongly support the use of extrajudicial viole…
The Effect of Legislature Size on Public Spending
In path-breaking work, Weingast et al. argue that there is a positive relationship between legislature size and inefficiency in public expenditures. Their proposition is currently known as the ‘law of 1/n’ and has been widely debated in political science and public administration. However, recent studies have questioned the validity of the theory. In this letter, we conduct the first meta-analysis that assesses the generality of the ‘law of 1/n’.…
Social Well‐Being in an Unsettled World
Marking the 75th anniversary of the International Social Science Journal , this Special Issue examines social well‐being in an era of intersecting crises that deepen inequality, climate disruption, demographic ageing, forced displacement, digital saturation, and changing family and community life. Engaging in dialogue with diverse scholarly perspectives from economics, sustainability studies, psychology, sociology, politics and social work, the i…
Legislature size and welfare
How does legislature size impact public service provision? Despite the importance of institutional design for democratic governance, the effect of legislative features on citizen welfare remains little understood. In this article, we use a formal model to show that increasing legislature size improves public goods delivery. We argue that changes in bargaining costs depend on whether additional legislators share the executive's party affiliation: …
Political science (9 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Legislature (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras)