Géssica de Freitas
Fields of Study: Comparative Politics, Methodology
Areas of Interest: Political institutions; Legislative politics, Brazilian politics, Institutional change
Gessica de Freitas is a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame specializing in Comparative Politics and Methods. She has a MA in Political Science from the University of State Campinas (UNICAMP - Brazil). Her master's thesis explores the endogenous institutional changes Brazilian parliamentarians implemented in federal legislative houses in the recent democratic period. She also holds a BA in Political Science from the same University.