About Me
Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I am a fourth-year Political Science Ph.D. Candidate at Texas A&M University. My research interests include: legislatures; executives; constitutional design, procedures, and practices; the evolution of democratic institutions; coalition governance.
In my dissertation project, I focus on the use and consequences of government-initiated votes of confidence in parliamentary democracies and related features of parliamentarism.
Fields
- Comparative Politics
- Methods
- American Politics
Education
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Ph.D. Political Science, 2024 (Expected)
Texas A&M University
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BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations & Economics, 2019
University of Strathclyde
Recent Publications
(2023).
The Leopard Paradox? Meloni’s Institutional Reforms in Italy.
Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional, 2023/6/01, https://doi.org/10.17176/20230601-231110-0 (Editor-reviewed).
(2023).
Something Old, Something New? Votes of Confidence, Parliamentary Dissolution, Election Timing, and Judicial Review Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022.
Parliaments, Estates and Representation, https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2213530.
(2022).
Elections, Governments, Heads, and Legislatures in Italy 1720-2021.
Italian Journal of Electoral Studies, Research Notes 2, 1-7.
Teaching
Instructor of Record
POLS 322: Western European Government and Politics
Teaching Assistant
POLS 626: Comparative Political Institutions (Graduate seminar; Instructor: José A. Cheibub)
Teaching Assistant
POLS 352: Empirical Democratic Theory (Instructor: José A. Cheibub)
Skills
Programming & Software
R
Advanced
Stata
Advanced
Python
Basic
LaTeX/BibTeX
Advanced
Microsoft Office
Advanced
Contact
- bromofra@tamu.edu
- 1004 George Bush Drive West, 3035 Allen Building, 4348-TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4348
- Office 3072A