Mafalda Pratas Fernandes is a Ph.D. student in government at Harvard University. Her research focuses on
political representation, party politics and political economy in Western
Europe. She is also particularly interested in drawing comparisons between the
politics and social trends of Western Europe and those of the United States.
Prior to coming to Harvard, she completed a B.A. in economics and political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
Affiliations
Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University
Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University
Discipline
Government
Research Topic
Extremists versus Careerists: The dilemmas of democratizing political parties