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Bernardo Mueller

Bernardo Mueller

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Political Science

D-Index
31
Citations
5421
World Ranking
1072
National Ranking
2

Economics and Finance

D-Index
30
Citations
5186
World Ranking
3698
National Ranking
4

Overview

Bernardo Mueller is affiliated with the University of Brasília in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with notable contributions in economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, demography, safety research, and general social sciences.

Their work addresses a range of topics including culture, economy, and development studies; experimental behavioral economics studies; computational and text analysis methods; historical economic and social studies; law, economics, and judicial systems; social media and politics; and land rights and reforms.

Bernardo Mueller has authored several papers, including:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: transforming mental health implementation research, 2024, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Property rights and violence in indigenous land in Brazil, 2022, Land Use Policy
  • Where'd you get that idea? Determinants of creativity and impact in popular music, 2021, EconomiA

Frequent collaborators in their research encompass Lee J. Alston, Eric Alston, Felipe C. de Figueredo, Daniel O. Cajueiro, and Marcos Paulo R. Correia.

Bernardo Mueller's publications are most often found in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with fourteen papers, alongside contributions to The Lancet Psychiatry, Land Use Policy, EconomiA, and Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política.

Best Publications

  • Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Comportamento Estratégico em Presidencialismo de Coalizão: As Relações entre Executivo e Legislativo na Elaboração do Orçamento Brasileiro*

    Carlos Pereira;Bernardo Mueller

  • Uma teoria da preponderância do Poder Executivo: o sistema de comissões no Legislativo brasileiro

    Carlos Pereira;Bernardo Mueller

  • Partidos fracos na arena eleitoral e partidos fortes na arena legislativa: a conexão eleitoral no Brasil

    Carlos Pereira;Bernardo Mueller

  • Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

    Lee Alston;Bernardo Mueller

  • Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies

    Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Carlos Scartascini

  • THE COST OF GOVERNING Strategic Behavior of the President and Legislators in Brazil's Budgetary Process

    Carlos Pereira;Bernardo Mueller

  • A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Credibility and the Design of Regulatory Agencies in Brazil

    Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Brazil in Transition

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Property Rights and the State

    Lee J. Alston;Bernardo Mueller

  • El juego político en América Latina: ¿Cómo se deciden las políticas públicas?

    Carlos Scartascini;Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi

  • Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators

    Bernardo Mueller;Marcus Melo;Carlos Pereira;Paulo Correa

  • Who Decides the Budget?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Emmanuel Abuelafia;Sergio Berensztein

  • The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics

    Lee J Alston;Edwyna Margaret Harris;Bernardo Mueller

  • Why public policies fail: Policymaking under complexity

    Bernardo Mueller

  • The political economy of the Brazilian model of agricultural development: Institutions versus sectoral policy

    Bernardo Mueller;Charles Mueller

  • Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Bernardo Mueller;Gary D. Libecap

  • Land, property rights and privatization in Brazil

    Bernardo Mueller;Lee Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Robert Schneider

  • Titles, conflict, and land use

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications

    Eric Alston;Lee J. Alston;Bernardo Mueller;Tomas Nonnenmacher

  • Legal Reserve Requirements in Brazilian Forests: Path Dependent Evolution of De Facto Legislation

    Lee J. Alston;Bernardo Mueller

  • A Theory of Executive Dominance of Congressional Politics: The Committee System in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

    Carlos Pereira;Bernardo Mueller

  • Institutions for commitment in the Brazilian regulatory system

    Bernardo Mueller

  • Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil☆

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André B. C. de Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
Gary D. Libecap
Gary D. Libecap University of California, Santa Barbara
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán University of Notre Dame
Nauro F. Campos
Nauro F. Campos University College London
Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Mark Hallerberg
Mark Hallerberg Hertie School
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Fabrice Lehoucq
Fabrice Lehoucq University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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