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From Flyer to Flyer: An Analysis of the 2018 Elections in the Maré Favelas

By Fernanda Távora, Hannah de Vasconcellos • Translation by Cheyne Bull • October 31, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  For the original article in Portuguese published by data_labe, click here. Reporting by Hannah de Vasconcellos and Fernanda Távora in collaboration with Juliana Marques (data), Pedro Lira (editing), and Giulia Santos (graphics). […]

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Five Ways Electoral Design Shapes Democracy: Understanding the Brazilian System [REFERENCE]

By Marc Cho • October 12, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Perhaps it was only fitting that an election of unparalleled turbulence—featuring an assassination attempt and a former president campaigning from prison—was nearly decided in the first round of voting with one […]

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A Brazil that Elects Black and Favela Candidates Also Votes for Those Who Despise Them

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Abigail Cramer, Ava Rose Hoffman • October 11, 2018

Clique aqui para Português In Rio de Janeiro, three black women from favelas who had worked for Marielle Franco prior to her assassination were elected as state representatives: Renata Souza (PSOL), a postdoctoral researcher in media […]

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Countdown to Brazil’s 2018 Elections, Part 4: Party Dynamics

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Habib Msallem • July 23, 2018

Clique aqui para Português  This is the fourth article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The multiplicity of political parties in Brazil and their weak ideological cohesion often leads voters […]

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Countdown to Brazil’s 2018 Elections, Part 1: Polarization, ‘Fake News,’ and Fact Checking

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Anna Jönsson • February 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The year of 2018 promises to be intense for Brazilian politics, with concrete impacts […]

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