Manoel Gehrke

Manoel Gehrke is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). He specialises in comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on Latin America. His research interests include political corruption, contemporary threats to democracy, and the political economy of environmental degradation.

Gehrke's current book project investigates how political elites' reactions influence the effectiveness of anticorruption policies in Brazil. He is also working on cross-national projects that examine the political consequences of corrupt politicians being convicted and the use of nepotism in public employment as a tool for political bargaining in Brazilian municipalities. In addition, Gehrke has studied the ways in which political parties in Colombia evade controls to prevent electoral fraud.

Gehrke's research on the political economy of environmental degradation includes examining the effects of political favoritism and law enforcement tools on environmental crimes.