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Assistant Professor - Rutgers University
Ph.D. UCLA (2007); M.A. IUPERJ (2000); B.A. UFSC-Law (1999)

408 Hickman Hall
89 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901
zucco(at)polisci.rutgers.edu

My c.v. is available in English and in Portuguese.

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I have previously held visiting appointments at Princeton and at IESP (formerly IUPERJ), and post-docs at Yale and Princeton. I study Latin American politics, and my current main research project is on the political determinants and consequences of conditional cash transfer programs. My dissertation was on executive-legislative relations relations, and I have also written on political parties, electoral politics, and on the measurement and meaning of ideology. Below you will find links to text and data from my published and ongoing work. Feel free to contact me with suggestions, corrections, or to request the latest versions of papers not available here.

Publications
(Forthcoming 2013, with Timothy Power) "Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990-2009" Latin American Politics and Society. Data available soon. (Forthcoming 2013, with Timothy Power) "Bolsa Família and the Shift in Lula's Electoral Base, 2002-2006" Latin American Research Review. Data available soon. (Forthcoming 2013) "Legislative Coalitions in Presidential Systems: The Case of Uruguay'' Latin American Politics and Society. Data available soon. (Forthcoming 2012) "Estabilidad Sin Raices: La Institucionalización del Sistema de Partidos Brasileño'' In Mariano Torcal (org.) Los problemas de la Institucionalización de los Sistemas de partidos en America Latina, Ch. 3, CIDOB, Barcelona. Version in English (2011, with Ben Lauderdale) "Distinguishing Between Influences on Brazilian Legislative Behavior" Legislative Studies Quarterly 36(3), p.363–396. Links to Web-appendix and complete set of ideal point estimates. (2011, co-edited volume organized with Timothy Power) O Congresso por ele mesmo. UFMG Press, Belo Horizonte. Data available here. Esquerda, Direita e Governo: A ideologia dos partidos políticos brasileiros (Chapter in the above mentioned book) (2009) "Ideology or What? Legislative Behavior in Multiparty Presidential Settings" The Journal of Politics, 71(3), p.1076-1092. Data available here. (2009, with Timothy Power) "Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties, 1990-2005" Latin American Research Review, 44(1), p218-246. Data available here. (2008) "The President's `New' Constituency: Lula and the Pragmatic Vote in Brazil's 2006 Presidential Election" Journal of Latin American Studies, 40, p29-49. Data available here. (2008, with Daniela Campello) "A esquerda em um país democrático, globalizado e desigual: Uma análise do Brasil de Lula" in Moreira, Carlos et al (Editors), Perspectivas Analíticas Sobre Nuevos Gobiernos y Sociedad en America Latina. Trilice, Montevideo. (2007) "Where's the Bias: A Reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System'' Electoral Studies, 26, p303-14. Data available here (2006,Op-ed piece) "O Eleitorado Governista'' O Globo, Nov/7/2006, p.7
Working Papers and Work in Progress
CCTs and Voting Behavior Poor voters vs. poor places (Slides) The Roots of Petismo in Brazil, 1989-2010 (with David Samuels) The Strength of Party Labels in Brazil: Evidence from Survey Experiments (with David Samuels) Crafting Mass Partisanship at the Grass Roots, from the Top Down (with David Samuels) Click here for an inactive version of the online survey. The Political Economy of Ordinary Politics (with Paulo Melo-Filho) Legislative Capitalism: Governing after reforms Are CCTs a More Acceptable Form of Redistribution? (work in progress)

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Publications

Working Papers and Work in Progress