Can the public funding of political parties and electoral campaigns be used as an effective tool to increase descriptive representation in elected office? In this paper, we study the efficiency of a unique electoral reform introduced in Brazil in 2021 that ties the allocation of public funds to the performance of female and racial minority candidates.

This paper investigates how media ownership concentration in India influences news selection on short video platforms and affects political outcomes both online and offline. We construct a novel event-level dataset combining web-scraped TV archives with news videos selected into Shorts to explore political bias in news selection on digital platforms. We propose a new approach strategy to recover the online news audience of TV channels and assess its offline implications. The results contribute to understanding how these changes may amplify government-aligned and far-right narratives through online news distribution.

Using a novel dataset on Brazilian expatriates spanning six presidential elections, I examine whether exposure to political institutions in destination countries influences whether and how these migrants vote in their home-country expatriate elections. My identification strategy exploits the exogeneity of political turnovers and other host-country shocks. While still a work in progress, this project uncovers a new channel for the cross-border diffusion of democratic institutions, introducing the concept of vote remittances.