Centro de Estudos da Metrópole

Vice-director and coordinator of “Councils, Subnational Regimes and Training” project at Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM).

Professor at the Department of Political Science, FFLCH/University of São Paulo and researcher at the CEBRAP. He is coordinator of the Center for Democracy and Collective Action Research (CEBRAP) and he is Chair of the Track "Civil Society and Social Movements" of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, 2017-2019). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Political Science Review, titular counselor of the Humanities Area on the SciELO Advisory Committee (2017-2018), member of the Academic Committee of Social Sciences of CNPq (2017-2020).

He holds a Post-doctorate at the Institute of Development Studies (2005), a Doctorate in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (2001), a MSc  in Sociology at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1994), and a Political Science and Public Administration degree at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1991).

He has experience in the field of Political Sociology and acts mostly on the following subjects: associations, civil society, democratic theory, theories of representation, public space.

His latest books are "Intermediation and Representation in Latin America - Actors and Roles Beyond Elections" (co-authored with Gisela Zaremberg and Valeria Guarneros-Mesa: Plalgrave Macmillan, 2017); "O papel da teoria política contemporânea - Justiça, Constituição, Democracia e Representação" (co-authored with Álvaro de Vita and Cícero Araújo, São Paulo: Alameda, 2015); “O Horizonte da Política: Questões emergentes e agendas de pesquisa” (org. São Paulo: Ed. Unesp/CEM/Cebrap, 2012) and "La innovación democrática en América Latina - Participación, representación y control Social" (co-authored with Ernesto Inzunsa, Mexico: CIESAS, UV, 2010).