OBPEX Publications

González-Bustamante, B. (2026). Machine Learning and Political Events: Application of a Semi-supervised Approach to Produce a Dataset on Presidential Cabinets. Social Science Computer Review, 44(2), 245-258.

Vetulani-Cęgiel, A., & De Medeiros Albrecht, N. F. M. (2026). New venue for new policy and actors? Tracing participation and debate on digital copyright and emerging technologies in WIPO and WTO. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1-34.

De Medeiros Albrecht, N. F. M., & Rozbicka, P. (2025). Lobbying and Advocacy Beyond the North: a bibliometric exploration of the Internation Scholarship on the Global South. Revista Agenda Política, 12(3), 101-123.

De Medeiros Albrecht, N. F. M., & Ribeiro, P. F. (2025). Appointments to Public Office in Brazil: A Comparative Study of the Federal Executive’s Ministries of Agriculture and Culture (2011-2021). Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, 44, 1-35.

Praça, S., Costanzo, D., Rodriguez, D., Guimarães, G., Nasser, J. P., & Rodrigues, R. V. (2025). Infrastructure and corruption: Rio de Janeiro's Metropolitan Arc. In B. Ames & J. V. Guedes-Neto (eds.), Inside Brazilian Bureaucracy: Politics and Policy Implementation in Brazilian States. Routledge.

De Medeiros Albrecht, N. F. M. (2024). Parties Are Not the Only Patrons: Towards a New Typology of Patronage. Brazilian Political Science Review, 18(3), 1-24.

Salazar‐Morales, D., Pineda, P., & Lauriano, L. A. (2024). Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure. Governance, 37(4), 1433-1463. [1]

[1] Featured in The Conversation, France "Pourquoi certains pays ferment-ils leurs écoles en temps de crise et d’autres non?"

Fleming, T. G., González-Bustamante, B., & Schleiter, P. (2024). Cabinet Reshuffles and Parliamentary No‑Confidence Motions. Government and Opposition, 59(4), 1274-1288.

Duarte, C. P. (2024). Ministérios e burocracia no processo de produção de políticas públicas: O caso das agendas do setor de energia. Teoria & Pesquisa: Revista De Ciência Política, 33(00), e024003.

De Medeiros Albrecht, N. F. M. (2023). Bureaucrats, interest groups and policymaking: a comprehensive overview from the turn of the century. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 565.

Salazar-Morales, D. (2023). A Mercantile Theory of Expert Knowledge Utilization in Patrimonialist Bureaucracies: Evidence from the Health Sector in Peru. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 33(3), 391-406. [2]

[2] Editor's Choice 2023 for its "high-quality contribution to Public Administration"

González-Bustamante, B. (2023). Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 25(4), 655-675. [3]

[3] Featured on the PEX Blog, Brazil "The Impact of Low Presidential Approval on Cabinet Stability: Evidence from Brazil and Chile"

Salazar-Morales, D. (2023). Conceptualising the ministerial adviser in Latin America: roles and relationships with the bureaucracy. In R. Shaw (ed.), Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers. Edward Elgar.

Salazar Morales, D. (2022). The reputational basis of policy success in comparative perspective: Evidence from the education sector in Peru and Bolivia. Governance, 35(1), 143-165.​

González-Bustamante, B. (2021). Evolution and early government responses to COVID-19 in South America. World Development, 137, 105180.

González-Bustamante, B. (2020). The Politics‐Administration Dichotomy: A Case Study of the Chilean Executive during the Democratic Post‐Transition. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 39(5), 582-597.

Salazar-Morales, D., & Amaral, L. (2020). A Typology of the Latin American Civil Servant: Patronage Appointee, Technocrat, Loyalist, or Careerist. In H. Sullivan, H. Dickinson, & H. Henderson (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan.

Salazar-Morales, D . (2018). Sermons, carrots or sticks? Explaining successful policy implementation in a low performance institution. Journal of Education Policy, 33(4), 457-487. [4]

[4] Selected as part of the UNESCO IIEP Policy Tool Box Library for addressing educational planning challenges globally​