Published in Latin American Politics and Society, 2026
Examines how infrastructure construction under Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) increased homicides via the “logistical violence premium” mechanism, using a staggered difference-in-differences design across 184 municipalities in Ceará, Brazil.
Recommended citation: Ribeiro, Felipe. "Paving the Way for Violence." Revise and resubmit, Latin American Politics and Society.
Published in , 1900
Compares the Primeiro Comando da Capital (São Paulo) and Comando Vermelho (Rio de Janeiro) to ask how criminal governance structure conditions the effects of leader removal. Using an event-study design that distinguishes arrests from police killings, the paper finds that removals shift violence between visible and concealed forms rather than simply raising or lowering its level, with undetermined-intent deaths serving as a proxy for concealment.
Recommended citation: Ribeiro, Felipe. "Decapitation and the Visibility of Violence: Leader Removal in Brazilian Criminal Organizations." Working paper.
Undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, Temple University, 2020
Instructor of record, taught multiple terms (Spring/Fall/Summer 2020–2024).
Undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, Macalester College, 2024
A survey of political institutions, regime trajectories, and state-society relations across Latin America (Fall 2024).
Undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, Macalester College, 2024
An introduction to the core concepts and methods of comparative politics — regime types, state capacity, political economy, and institutional design — taught twice (Fall 2024, Spring 2025).
Undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, Macalester College, 2025
A seminar on criminal governance and violence, examining how organized crime groups regulate territory and populations where the state’s presence is thin or contested.
Undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, Macalester College, 2025
Course comparing race-making in Latin America and the United States. Multidisciplinary course, including politics, economics, history, and arts.
Undergraduate/Graduate course, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2026
A mixed undergraduate/graduate course examining the comparative study of political violence, including organized crime, civil conflict, and state repression.
Undergraduate course, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2026
A thematically structured survey of government, politics, and society across Latin America.