Dear all,

Luis Schiumerini from the University of Notre Dame will give a talk "Incumbency effects in elections in Brazil" on the 5th of June from 4-5 pm in room 2A-59 of the VU main building. Luis is an assistant professor of political science at Notre Dame, where he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Political Science and a 2017-2018 Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow. His research focuses on the political economy of citizenship in the developing world. He combines fieldwork with tools of causal inference to investigate the conditions under which citizens can effectively engage in electoral accountability, participate in mass protests, and form preferences for redistribution.

Luis is completing a book manuscript entitled Blessing and Curse: Incumbency and Democratic Accountability in Latin America that explores why incumbent politicians enjoy an electoral advantage in some political settings but a disadvantage in others. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Perspective on Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the British Journal of Political Science, and University of Michigan Press.

Please find the paper attached to this message. We look forward to seeing many of you!

Best wishes, Mariken

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mariken van der Velden, PhD Assistant Professor of Political Communication Department of Communication Science | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam Departemental Webpagehttps://research.vu.nl/en/persons/mariken-van-der-velden HOMEPAGEhttps://www.marikenvandervelden.eu/