Prof Cesar Zucco joined the FGV faculty in July 2013. He was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2011–2013) and has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Oxford, and at The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He is the author of two books with Cambridge University Press ("Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans” published in 2018 and "The Volatility Curse”, (2020) and has published widely in some the leading journals in political science (such as the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science) as well as in area studies journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, among others. 

Educational Background 

• PhD in Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2007); 
• Master’s in Political Science, Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (IUPERJ) (2000); 
• Bachelor’s in Law, Santa Catarina Federal University (1999). 

Fields of Interest 

• Parties and elections in Latin America 
• Measurement and meaning of ideology 
• Political determinants and impacts of social programs 
• Research designs for causal inference 

Programs: 

• Undergraduation
• MSc&PhD
• Professional Master in Public Administration (MAP)