Congratulations to Natalia de Paula Moreira on winning the Prize for Best Poster in Political Methodology in the 2019 IPSA-USP Summer School. Natalia is a doctoral student in political science at USP who has recently spent a year visiting Texas A&M University. Her poster focused on “Bias and Efficiency Gains in Compositional Dependent Variables in Static and Dynamic Scenarios“.
In the Applied Methodology section, Leonardo da Rocha Loures Bueno, a doctoral student in the Fundação Getulio Vargas, was awarded the prize for Best Poster for his poster on “Retrospective voting in Brazil: short and long-term effects of São Paulo’s smart card policy“.
Thiago de Oliveira Meireles, a doctoral student in the Political Science department at USP also received an honourable mention in Applied Methodology for his poster on “Do Political Parties Matter for Subnational International Activities? Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities.”
All posters were judged by an international committee comprised of Allyson Benton (CIDE, Mexico), Andrew Philips (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Jason Seawright (Northwestern University).
