Designing Participatory Democracy in Brazil: A Machine Learning Model of Elites' Choices to Share Power with Civil Society Actors

• In Event: Interest Groups, Associations, and Networks

Brief Overview

This paper analyzes the text of 1,000s of laws that establish participatory institutions in Brazilian cities using Python. I show which political circumstances and incentives at the time resulted in stronger and weaker institutions.

Author

• David McCoy, University of Pittsburgh