Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Moreira, Thiago MQ. 2025. "Is it still the Economy? Economic Voting in Polarized Politics." British Journal of Political Science, 55, 1-24. Replication data at Harvard Dataverse.
Kagalwala, Ali, Thiago MQ Moreira, and Guy D. Whitten. 2024. "Tumultuous Pies: Electoral Dynamics in the Brexit Era." Electoral Studies 90.
Kagalwala, Ali, Thiago MQ Moreira, and Guy D. Whitten. 2024. "A Simple Approach to Dealing with Partial Contestation." Social Science Quarterly.
Goidel, Spencer, Thiago MQ Moreira, and Brenna Armstrong. "Party Realignment, Education, and the Turnout Advantage: Revisiting the Partisan Effect of Turnout." 2023. American Political Research.
Cheibub, José Antonio, Thiago MQ Moreira, Gisela Sin, and Keigo Tanabe. 2022. "Dynamic party system fragmentation." Electoral Studies 76. Replication data at OSF.
Constantino, Sara M., Alicia D. Cooperman, and Thiago MQ Moreira. 2021. "Voting in a global pandemic: Assessing dueling influences of Covid‐19 on turnout." Social Science Quarterly 102, no. 5 (2021): 2210-2235. Replication data at OSF.

Manuscripts

Cheibub, José Antonio, Thiago MQ Moreira, and Andrea Junqueira. "Preventing a War of All Against All: Geographic Sorting in OLPR Electoral Systems."
Moreira, Thiago MQ, Spencer Goidel, and Brenna Armstrong. "The Partisan Effects of the Drug Crisis."
Moreira, Thiago MQ. "Expanding the Constituency: The Incumbency Advantage in OLPR Elections."

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Portuguese

Working Papers

Moreira, Thiago MQ. Electoral Competition and the Adoption of Official Ballot: Costs of Making Voters in Mass Electorates.
Kagalwala, Ali, Thiago MQ Moreira, Guy D. Whitten, and Yongzhi Xu. A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Account for Sample Selection in Multiparty Elections.
Cooperman, Alicia, Andrea Junqueira, Thiago MQ Moreira, and Manuela Muñoz. How do Mega Cities Decentralize Local Representation? Precinct-Level Voting Behavior and Municipal Service Provision: Evidence from Brazil and Colombia.
Dunaway, Johanna, Ana Beatriz Dutra, Spencer Goidel, and Thiago MQ Moreira. Clarity of Responsibility, Media, and Political Accountability.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Florian Hollenbach, and Thiago MQ Moreira. Fiscal Capacity, Preferences over Taxation, and Distributional Consequences.
Moreira, Thiago MQ. Vested Interests and Intra-State Politics in the Court System: Policy Change in the Brazilian States Legal Aid.
Fonseca, Thiago do Nascimento, and Thiago MQ Moreira. When the court faces the government.
Fonseca, Thiago do Nascimento, and Thiago MQ Moreira. Agenda Setting and Negotiation in Constitutional Court: Evidence from the Brazilian Supreme Court.

Book Chapters and Funded Projects

Moreira, Thiago MQ. 2024. "A Construção da Defensoria Pública no Brasil." In: José Augusto Garcia da Silva et al. A História Pede Passagem: Estudos em homenagem aos 70 anos da Defensoria Pública no Brasil Vol. 1: 333-352.
Moreira, Thiago MQ. 2019. "Defensoria Pública e Judicialização: expectativas e desenvolvimento histórico." In: Vanessa Elias de Oliveira (Org.). Judicialização de Políticas Públicas no Brasil. 1st ed. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz.
"Ações Coletivas no Brasil: temas, atores e desafios da tutela coletiva." 2017. In: Sumário Executivo Justiça Pesquisa Direitos e Garantias Fundamentais. A research project sponsored by the National Justice Council (CNJ) and produced by the Brazilian Public Law Association (SBDP).
Arantes, Rogério B, and Thiago MQ Moreira. 2017. "Defensoria Pública e acesso à justiça no novo CPC." In: José Augusto Garcia da Silva et al. Defensoria Pública-Coleção repercussões do novo CPC 5: 703-730.
Moreira, Thiago MQ. "A Criação da Defensoria Pública nos Estados Brasileiros: conflitos institucionais e corporativos no processo de uniformização do acesso à justiça." Master's Thesis in Political Science defended in 2016 at University of São Paulo.