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Jonas Lefebvre

PhD Candidate in Political Science.

jonas.lefebvre@umontreal.ca

I am a PhD student in Political Science at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Françoise Montambeault. My research interests include collective action, democratic erosion, and participatory mechanisms, with a particular focus on Brazil. My dissertation seeks to understand how urban collectives in Porto Alegre are adapting to the gradual degradation of a participatory mechanism around which they had long been structured: participatory budgeting.

I hold a Master's degree in International Relations (2019) and a Master's degree in Sociology and Anthropology (2020), both from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. I am also a member of the Canada Research Chair in Participation and Citizenship(s), a doctoral fellow at CÉRIUM (UdeM), and an associate researcher at AmericaS (ULB).

Languages: French, English, Portuguese, Spanish

PhD Candidate in Political Science at Université de Montréal

Main research areas

  • Participatory Democracy
  • Urban politics
  • Collective action
  • Qualitative Methods 


Publications

Lefebvre J. (2024) Changing urban movements repertoires following the erosion of Porto Alegre's participatory budgeting: From institutionalized participation to deinstitutionalization. Latin American Politics and Society. 67(2):1-19. doi:10.1017/lap.2024.3s 

Lefebvre J. (2023) Défaites politiques et trajectoires d’engagement : le choc moral de l’année 2016 pour les pétistes de Belo Horizonte. SociologieS [En ligne], https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologies.20010 

Lefebvre J. (2024) Social movements in Porto Alegre facing the de-democratization of participatory budgeting. Dans New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America.  Sous la direction de Levy C., Larrabure M. et D. Furukawa Marques. Lexington Books. 

Lefebvre J. (2022) Représentations de la marginalisation militante.  Le cas des militants du Parti des Travailleurs (PT) à Belo Horizonte durant la procédure de destitution de Dilma Rousseff (2016). Dans Marges et marginalités au Brésil. Sous la direction de F. Louault, K. Kermoal et M. De Barros, Presses universitaires de Bruxelles. 


Website

LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-lefebvre-57b2141a3/ 

Academia, https://www.academia.edu/ 

ResearchGate, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonas-Lefebvre?ev=hdr_xprf