PAULO ALEXANDRE BATISTA DE CASTRO
PhD in Political Science
Deputy Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Public Administration at IDP
PhD in Political Science from the University of Brasília. He has a degree in Political Science and a master's degree in Comparative Studies on the Americas from the same university. His lines of research deal with the limits of the legitimacy of the Federal Supreme Court and the electoral spending strategies of mayoral candidates in Brazil. He has experience in the areas of political analysis, public policies and judicial studies. He was a public policy consultant at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), at the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic and at the Ministry of Justice, where he also served as General Coordinator at the National Consumer Secretariat. Between 2017 and 2018 he was a Research Fellow at the American University, Washington DC (scholarship of the PDSE/CAPES Program). He is currently Deputy Coordinator of the Professional Master's in Public Administration at the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP) and professor of the Professional Master's in Law, Justice and Development (IDP/SP).
Courses he teaches:
Bachelor's Degree in Administration, Professional Master's Degree in Public Administration
Featured works:
CASTRO, Paulo AB. Some dilemmas of comparison as a social science method: in search of understanding or explanation?. CEAM MAGAZINE, v. 4, p. 133-143, 2018. Link