Research

Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Politics and Economics of the Public Sector (Cepesp) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil (Fapesp scholarship). PhD in Political Science, 2021, University of São Paulo (CNPq scholarship). Visiting fellow at Harvard University from 09/2019 to 02/2020 (Capes PrInt scholarship). MA in Political Science, 2017 (CNPq scholarship), and Bachelor of Laws, 2014, Federal University of Minas Gerais. I also collaborate with the Study Group on Local Politics (NEPOL-UFJF).

Research interests:

• Political Institutions
• Electoral Studies
• Local Politics
• Electoral Geography
• Legislative Studies
• Political Parties

Publications and current works:

Peer-reviewed articles

• Gelape, Lucas and Glauco Peres da Silva. 2022. Party restriction on career decisions of Brazilian politicians: evidence from Brazilian city councilors. Revista de Sociologia e Política, v. 30, e014. (In Portuguese)

• Hoyler, Telma, Lucas Gelape and Graziele Silotto. 2021. [The construction of political-territorial ties: evidence from of São Paulo](/publication/indicacoes_sp/. Opinião Pública, Campinas, v. 27, n. 2, p. 549–584. (In Portuguese)

• Pereira, Rodolfo Viana and Lucas Gelape. 2015. Open-List Proportional Representation Anachronism in Brazil: the non-applicability of its original reasons for adoption. Revista de Informação Legislativa, Brasília, v. 52, n. 205, p. 261–279, march. 2015. (In Portuguese)

Book chapters

• Mendonça, Ricardo Fabrino, Lucas Gelape and Carlos Estevão C. Cruz. 2023. Collective Candidacies and Mandates in Brazil: Challenges and Pitfalls of a Gambiarra. In: Bua, Adrian and Sonia Bussu (eds). Reclaiming Participatory Governance: social movements and the reinvention of democratic innovation. New York: Routledge, p. 154-159.

• Soares, Fabiana de Menezes and Lucas Gelape. 2016. Legislative advising at ALMG: the Amicus curiae of legislative process? In: Santos, Manoel Leonardo and Fátima Anastasia (eds.). Política e Desenvolvimento Institucional no Legislativo de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte: Editora PUC Minas. p. 381–413. (In Portuguese)

PhD Dissertation

• Gelape, Lucas. 2022. In spite of all, local political careers: alternative patterns, incumbency advantage and political parties on city councilors trajectories. University of São Paulo, São Paulo. (In Portuguese)

Masters’ Thesis

• Gelape, Lucas. 2017. Electoral geography in municipal elections under the open-list electoral system: a study from Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. (In Portuguese)

Conference papers

• Gelape, Lucas and Thiago Álvares Feital. 2015. From Art to Politics: challenging representation. Human Rights, Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies: Proceedings of the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Belo Horizonte: Initia Via. p. 2211–2232.

Preprint

• Rocha, Marta Mendes and Lucas Gelape. 2023. Political affairs”: brokerage relationships between state representatives and local politicians in Brazil. SciELO Preprints. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.4064 (Original work published 2022)

Working papers

• The incumbency effect of Brazilian city councilors: effects and mechanisms. 2021. (In Portuguese)

• Integrated or local circuits: the career patterns of Brazilian city councilors. 2020. (In Portuguese)

• Determinants of Minas Gerais’ city-councilors career decisions. 2019. (In Portuguese)

• Electoral geography in municipal elections under the open-list electoral system: a study about Brazilian capitals. 2017. (In Portuguese)