Thiago Nascimento da Silva is a Lecturer at the School of Politics & International Relations and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism at the Australian National University. Thiago received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University, USA, and his M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. From 2019 to 2022, Thiago was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Economy at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Thiago's research agenda focuses on comparative politics, with an emphasis on political institutions and political economy. His research addresses the institutional variations of democracies and their consequences on who gets to govern, how governments formulate and enact their policies, and how governments die. In his recent research projects, Thiago examines the power dynamics in the executive-legislative relations of coalition governments in presidential and parliamentary democracies and their consequences on party competition, voter behaviour, and opposition behaviour. Additionally, Thiago is currently conducting research on how voters form their perceptions of political parties' policy positions and what types of events shape these perceptions, with a forthcoming co-authored book on the topic with David Fortunato (UCSD) and Laron Williams (University of Missouri) to be published by Cambridge University Press. His work has been published or is forthcoming in prestigious academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and others.

Ph.D. (Texas A&M University), M.Sc. (University of São Paulo)

• Comparative Politics 
• Political Institutions 
• Political Economy
• Coalition Governments
• Legislative Studies
• Political Behaviour
• Political and Economic Inequalities
• Quantitative Research Methods