Author: Marcus André Melo | Journal of Democracy

Marcus André Melo is professor of political science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is the author (with Carlos Pereira) of Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a Multiparty System (2013).

April 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2

Latin America’s New Turbulence: Crisis and Integrity in Brazil

Marcus André Melo

Public anger at revelations of widespread corruption, along with the rising cost of coalition politics, has brought Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to the brink of impeachment. Yet the crisis has also revealed the strength of the country’s law-enforcement and judicial institutions.

July 2012, Volume 23, Issue 3

The Surprising Success of Multiparty Presidentialism

Carlos Pereira
Marcus André Melo

Until recently, political scientists argued that democracy had poor chances of survival in a multiparty presidential regime. Latin America’s recent experience tells a different story.