Brazil

Will I Get Covid? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

In these polarized and challenging times, not even perceptions of personal risk are immune to partisanship. This paper introduces results from a new survey with an embedded social media experiment conducted during the first months of the COVID-19 …

Polarization, News Sharing, and Gatekeeping: A study of the Bolsonaro Election

The increasing importance of news sharing, and its effect on the routines, practices, and values described by the hierarchy of influences model, raises new questions about content creation in polarized social media environments. How does news sharing …

The Workers’ Party and Participatory Institutions: The Influence of Intra-party Dynamics in the Adoption of Participatory Budgeting

This article examines how the internal dynamics of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) influences the adoption of participatory public policies by municipal administrations, differentiating PT from the tradition of little …