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Tiago Peterlevitz

Graduate School Student

Tiago Peterlevitz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. His scholarly work focuses on clientelism, distributive politics, the political economy of development, and race and ethnicity, with a regional focus on Latin America. To understand failures in democratic representation and governance, his current research projects investigate elite political behavior. Before coming to Yale, he received an MA in Political Science from the University of São Paulo.