The future of Brazil’s political system #InsiderTalks

For decades, Brazil’s political system has been described as one of “coalition presidentialism” — an arrangement in which the president governs by building alliances with multiple parties, often through the strategic distribution of cabinet posts and budgetary incentives. But that model appears to be under increasing strain.

To examine whether this system is collapsing or merely evolving, The Brazilian Report's editor-in-chief, Gustavo Ribeiro, is hosting an unmissable roundtable discussion with Claudio Couto and Carlos Pereira, two leading political scientists from the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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• 📅 Wednesday, May 28: 11 am (Brazil time: GMT-3), 10 am EST

🧠 Meet our experts

Claudio Couto is a political scientist with a PhD from the University of São Paulo and postdoctoral research at Columbia University. A professor at Getulio Vargas Foundation’s São Paulo School of Public Administration and researcher at its Center for Political and Economic Studies (CEPESP-FGV), he specializes in democratic institutions, political parties and Executive-Legislative relations.

Carlos Pereira holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. He is a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation and an expert on institutional design, budget politics and coalition theory.

Gustavo Ribeiro, an award-winning journalist, has extensive experience covering Brazilian politics and international affairs. He has been featured across Brazilian and French media outlets and founded The Brazilian Report in 2017. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Latin American studies from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.

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