Marcello Baquero
Brazilian Studies Programme
Marcello Baquero is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil. He holdsa Ph.D. in Comparative Politics in Latin America from The Florida State University and is the director of the Nucleous of Latin American Research (www.ufrgs.br/nupesal), and also the Editor of the Journal of Political Science DEBATES (http://seer.ufrgs.br/debates). His main fields of research are: political culture, Brazilian politics, social capital and citizen´s empowerment. At the LAC/OXFORD, he was working on a project about what he has denominated the inertial nature of Latin American democracy.
Contact details: nupesal@yahoo.com.br
