Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi is a Brazilian
political scientist
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who was a member of the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Social Sciences at the
University of São Paulo
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(USP) from 1986 until 2018, and is now a professor in the São Paulo School of Economics at the
Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
He earned his PhD in political science at the
University of Chicago
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in 1993,
[ where he worked with various political scientists like ]Adam Przeworski
Adam Przeworski (; born May 5, 1940) is a Polish-American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics. He is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. He is a scholar of dem ...
(his advisor) with whom he published several works. Returning to Brazil and to USP in 1992, he took on many responsibilities in the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning, and became one of the members of the Chamber of Researchers at the center.
Limongi has provided commentary for newspapers on Brazilian politics. For example, in 2006, Limongi was challenged by the online publication IDG Now! to assess the Wikipedia
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articles of the candidates in the general election for Brazilian President.
Awards
Limongi has received several awards:
*1998: Gregory Luebbert Award for the Best paper in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association, given for the article: Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, "Modernization: Theories and Facts", World Politics 49, No. 2 (January 1997): 155-183[
*2001: Woodrow Wilson Prize from the ]American Political Science Association
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with Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, and Jose Antonio Cheibub for their book ''Democracy and Development''
*2006: Prêmio Olavo Brasil de Lima Jr., from the Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política
Selected works
*Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo, Fernando Limongi (1999). Executivo e Legislativo na Nova Ordem Constitucional. Rio de Janeiro: FGV. 231 pages.
*Adam Przeworski (co-authors: Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi) (2000). Democracy and Development; Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press. 336 pages.
References
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Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
University of Chicago alumni
Brazilian political scientists
People associated with the University of São Paulo
Year of birth missing (living people)