Despite their constitutional powers, South American presidents have not managed the Covid-19 pandemic effectively, write Marta Rocha, Luciana Santana and Magna Inácio. This is worrying in a region desperate to overcome economic decline, inequality, unemployment, and extreme poverty
Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Magna is former director of UFMG\'s Centre for Legislative Studies (CEL-DCP) .
She has been Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University (Jan/July, 2020); Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford (2012; 2017); GIGA/Hamburg (2014); Universidad de Salamanca (2009).
She holds a PhD in Political Science from UFMG (2006), and has conducted extensive comparative research on political institutions, presidencies, coalition politics, and executive-legislative relations.
She has published in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, America Hoy, Journal of Politics in Latin America and Brazilian Political Science Review.
Magna is the editor of www.pex-network.com, a blog dedicated to the study of presidents and executive politics, development and functioning of Presidencies, and cabinet politics.
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