Greetings! My name is Danilo Freire and I am a Senior Lecturer in the School
of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln. My academic credentials include a PhD in Political Economy from King's College London, an MA
in International Relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva, alongside an MA in Political Science from the University of São Paulo. Prior to my
current role, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in The Political Theory Project at Brown
University.
My scholarship addresses the challenges developing countries face in resolving collective
action problems and eliminating political violence. Key themes that underpin my work include public
service delivery, vertical and horizontal accountability, private governance, and state violence.
Latin America is my principal region of focus, wherein I employ a range of methodological approaches
and data sources, including survey and field experiments, machine learning algorithms, and
administrative records.
My work has been featured in the American Journal of Political Science, the
British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Experimental Political Science,
Latin American Research Review, Research & Politics, among others. I am also an active
member of EGAP. To explore my recent projects, please
follow this link.
You may access my full CV here,
and my projects are available on GitHub. For any questions,
inquiries, or potential collaborations, feel free to contact me at dfreire@lincoln.ac.uk or danilofreire@gmail.com. I look forward
to connecting with you.
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"Vigilantism and Institutions: Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil" (with David Skarbek). Research & Politics, 2023, 10(1), 1-8. Replication files.
"Legislature Size and Welfare: Evidence from Brazil" (with Umberto Mignozzetti and Gabriel Cepaluni). Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science, 2022. Replication files.
"The Effect of Legislature Size on Distributive Politics: A Meta-Analysis" (with Umberto Mignozzetti, Catarina Roman and Huzeyfe Alptekin). First view, British Journal of Political Science, 2022. Replication files.
"Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies" (with Umberto Mignozzetti and David Skarbek). First view, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Summer 2021, 172-184. Replication files.
"Bottom-Up Accountability and Public Service Provision: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Brazil" (with Manoel Galdino and Umberto Mignozzetti). Research & Politics, 2020, 7(2), 1-8. Replication files.
"congressbr: An R Package for Analysing Data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate" (with Robert McDonnell and Guilherme Duarte). Latin American Research Review, 2019, 54(4), 958-969. Software repository.
"Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals?: Private Governance in Brazil’s Jogo do Bicho". Latin American Perspectives. 2019, 46(4), 230-244. Media coverage: BBC Brazil.
"Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach". Latin American Research Review, 2018, 53(2), 231-249. Replication files. Media coverage: Valor Econômico.
"prisonbrief: An R Package that Returns Tidy Data from the World Prison Brief Website" (with Robert McDonnell). Journal of Open Source Software, 2018, 3(22), 361. Software repository.
"Lack of Preferences, Political Trust and Education Levels: Alternative Explanations for Invalid Votes in Brazilian Elections" (with Guilherme Arbache and Pietro Rodrigues). Encuentro Latinoamericano, 2015, 1(1), 29–50. Replication files.
Between Ballot Boxes and Guns: The Competitiveness of the Executive Branch and Civil Wars, 1976-2000. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2014, 36, 33–60. Replication files.
"Financial Incentives and Health Care Provision: Evidence from an Experimental Aedes aegypti Control Programme in Brazil" (with Umberto Mignozzetti). Revise and resubmit, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions" (with Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke and others). Revise and resubmit, Sociological Methods and Research.
"Legislative Outcomes and Malapportionment: Evidence from Latin America" (with Umberto Mignozzetti and Catarina Roman).
"Democratising Policy Analytics with AutoML".
"What Drives State-Sponsored Violence? Evidence from Extreme Bounds Analysis and Ensemble Learning Methods" (with Gary Uzonyi).
Natural Resources and Policy Choices in Latin America (with Giovanna França and Umberto Mignozzetti, editors). São Paulo: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2020.
Geopolitics of Renewable Energies in Latin America: A Survey (with Umberto Mignozzetti). 2019. Policy Report commissioned by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
"Prison Gangs" (with David Skarbek). In: Griffin, Hayden; Woodward, Vanessa (ed.). Handbook of Corrections in the United States. London: Routledge, 2017, 399–408.
"Peering at Open Peer Review". The Political Methodologist, 2015, 23 (1), 6--11.
"A Nova Gestão Pública e a Qualidade da Democracia". In: Erkens, Rainer (ed.). Nova Gestão Pública. São Paulo: Instituto Friedrich Naumann, 2010, 9–15.
pinochet: Data about the victims of the Pinochet regime, 1973-1990 (with Lucas Mingardi and Robert McDonnell).
congressbr: Downloads, unpacks and tidies Legislative data from the Brazilian Federal Senate and Chamber of Deputies (with Robert McDonnell and Guilherme Duarte).
prisonbrief: R package that returns tidy data from the World Prison Brief website (with Robert McDonnell).
Instructor (with Rosario Aguilar, Jake Bowers, Luis Maldonado, and Julia Seither), EGAP Learning Days 15: Field Experiments in the Social Sciences. Evidence in Governance and Politics, Medellín, 2024.
Instructor (with Rosario Aguilar, Jake Bowers, Luis Maldonado, and Maarten Voors), EGAP Learning Days 13: Field Experiments in the Social Sciences. Evidence in Governance and Politics, Mexico City, 2023.
Module Coordinator, Lecturer and Seminar Leader (with Anthony Ellis and Elena Gaschino), Policing Crime and Deviance (Undergraduate). University of Lincoln, 2021-present. Student evaluations.
Lecturer and Seminar Leader (with Nick Cowen and Aris Trantidis), Human Rights (Undergraduate). University of Lincoln, 2021-present. Student evaluations.
Lecturer, Political Violence (Undergraduate). Brown University, Fall 2019. Student evaluations.
Lecturer, Political Research Methods (Undergraduate). Brown University, Winter 2019. Student evaluations.
Lecturer, Political Economy and Institutions (Graduate). Centro de Estudios Superiores Online de Madrid Manuel Ayau (OMMA) and Universidad Francisco Marroquín, 2017. Student evaluations.
Teaching Assistant and Seminar Leader, Principles of Economics II - Macroeconomics (Undergraduate). King's College London, Fall 2017.
Teaching Assistant and Seminar Leader, Principles of Economics I - Microeconomics (Undergraduate). King's College London, Winter 2017.
Machine Learning for Political Science (Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate).
Latin American Politics (Undergraduate/Graduate).
Introduction to Comparative Politics (Undergraduate/Graduate).