Research

Peer-reviewed journals

The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper-Middle-Income Countries. Stek, P.E., Lima-de-Oliveira, R. and Vasudhevan, T. (2025). Regulation & Governance, 19: 482-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70010 

Breaking the carbon lock-in : Identifying pathways for Malaysia towards a low-carbon future. Schuch, E., Apergi, M., Yik, D., Chow, K., Eicke, L., Goldthau, A., Kurniawan, J. H., Lima-de-oliveira, R., Gen, Z., & Weko, S. (2024). Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 202(March 2024), 123331. 

An energy justice index for the energy transition in the global South. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Volume 192, March 2024, 114238 (Maria Apergi, Laima Eicke, Andreas Goldthau, Mustafa Hashem, Sebastián Huneeus, Renato Lima de Oliveira, Maureen Otieno, Esther Schuch, Konstantin Veit. ). 

Political Support for Sale: Cabinet Appointments and Public Expenditures in Brazil. Braz. political sci. rev. [online]. 2024, vol. 18, n. 1 (Mauerberg Jr., Arnaldo and Oliveira, Renato Lima de and Guerreiro, Julia. ).

"The impact of gamification on entrepreneurial Intention in a Brazilian technical business school." Brazilian Administration Review, (2023) 20(1), e210033. (by Melo, F. L. N. B. de, Soares, A. M. J., Sampaio, L. M. B., & Oliveira, R. L.- de-).

"Corruption and local content development: Assessing the impact of the Petrobras’ scandal on recent policy changes in Brazil" The Extractive Industries and Societies (2019). 

“Fueling development? Assessing the Impact of Oil and Soybean Wealth on Municipalities in Brazil” (with Martin Liby Alonso), The Extractive Industries and Societies. 4 (2017) 576–585.

“Can Politicians Police Themselves? Natural Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Audit Courts” (with F. Daniel Hidalgo and Julio Canello), Comparative Political Studies, March 3, 2016 0010414015626436). Recipient of the "James Caporaso Best Paper" award for the best paper to appear in CPS in 2016.

“Corrupção Burocrática e Empreendedorismo: Uma Análise Empírica dos Estados Brasileiros.” (Bureaucratic Corruption and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis of Brazilian States) (with Felipe de Melo and Luciano Sampaio). Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Management), v. 19, n. 3, art. 5, pp. 374-397. Rio de Janeiro, 2015.

Book chapters, essays and policy papers

Kurdli, Susan, and Renato Lima-de-Oliveira. 2025. “Energy Transition in Oil-Rich Countries: The Role of Resource Nationalism.” In Carbon Neutrality in the Gulf: Between Well-Intentioned Pledges and the Harsh Reality, eds. Wael A. Samad, Ahmed Badran, and Elie Azar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. chapter, 225–44.

Lima-de-Oliveira, R., Stek, P., and Phang, R. "Asserting Climate Change Leadership in ASEAN: Carbon Pricing for the Malaysian Steel Industry." Policy IDEAS, No. 79, April 2024. 

"Competitive Neutrality in the Malaysian Power Sector: Removing Barriers for a Greener and More Innovative Energy Industry." Brief IDEAS No. 39, 2023. 

Hermann, J., Apergi, M., Eicke, L., Goldthau, A., Kurniawan, J., Lima-de-Oliveira, R., Schuch, E., Weko, S. (2022): Unlocking a Low-Carbon Future for Malaysia. - IASS Policy Brief, 2022, 5.

“The future of Malaysia’s energy mix” with Mathias Varming, Policy Ideas, n. 64, 10/2020. Kuala Lumpur: IDEAS. 

“OPEC at 60: A powerful past, a doubtful future” in Strategic Review (Global Perspectives), Jul 9, 2020. 

“Resource-Led Industrial Development in the Oil and Gas Global Value Chain: The Case of Brazil” in Innovation in Brazil: Advancing Development in the 21st Century, Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Ben Ross Schneider, and Ezequiel Zylberberg (eds), Routledge, 2019. 

“Left Government, Business Politics, And the Revival of Industrial Policy In Brazil” with Mansueto Almeida and Ben Ross Schneider in Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics, Barry Ames (ed), Routledge,  2019.

“Powering the future: Malaysia’s energy policy challenges” Policy Ideas, n. 55, 11/2018. Kuala Lumpur: IDEAS. 

“Construindo indústria petroleira por meio de grupos nacionais - casos do Brasil e México” in Elites empresariais estado e mercado na América Latina, F. Cimini, J.V.B. Cabria, and R.R. Marques da Silva (eds), 173-196. Belo Horizonte: Face/UFMG, 2018.

"Elite Contestation and Mass Participation in Brazilian Legislative Elections, 1945-2014” with F. Daniel Hidalgo in New Order and Progress:  Development and Democracy in Brazil, Ben Ross Schneider (ed), Oxford University Press, 2016).

“Government and Politics” in “Brazil” (Latin America in Focus Series), Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta and Eduardo F. Coutinho (eds.),. Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-CLIO, 2016.

“Política industrial e empresas estatais no Brasil: BNDES e Petrobras,” with Mansueto Almeida and Ben Ross Schneider in Capacidades Estatais e Democracia, Alexandre Gomide and Roberto Pires (eds), 323-347. Brasília: IPEA, 2014.

“Lincoln Gordon e o Golpe” in Na Trilha do Golpe, Tulio Velho Barreto & Laurindo Ferreira (eds). Recife: Editora Massangana (FUNDAJ), 2004. ISBN – 978.85.70194.17-6.

Book reviews

Lima-de-Oliveira, R. (2021). Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil. By Matthew M. Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 340p. $99.99 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 19(4), 1368-1369. doi:10.1017/S1537592721002255

Lima-de-Oliveira, R. (2022). Kathryn Hochstetler, Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 277 pp.; hardcover $99, ebook $80. Latin American Politics and Society, 64(3), 164-167. doi:10.1017/lap.2022.17

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