Thiago Nascimento da Silva is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics & International Relations and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism at the Australian National University. Thiago is also the co-chair of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA).

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, he 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 variation of democracies and their impact on party competition, voter behaviour, opposition behaviour, and coalition politics. In this line of research, he published a co-authored book with Thomas König (University of Mannheim) and Xiao Lu (Peking University), "Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy: The Dynamics of Cooperation and Competition in Coalition Governance," by Oxford University Press.

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 co-authored book on the topic with David Fortunato (UCSD) and Laron Williams (University of Missouri), "Voters' Perceptions of Party Brands," 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 many 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