He is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. In his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Feitosa provides an answer to two important questions: do individuals rationalize their sense of civic duty to vote based on their prior voting behavior? And where does this political attitude come from? Relying on diverse estimation methods, Dr. Feitosa offers evidence that individuals are unlikely to change their sense of duty to match their prior voting behavior. Moreover, Dr. Feitosa shows that civic education and compulsory voting contribute to the development of civic duty, whereas corruption bears a marginal effect on how dutiful individuals feel. Besides civic duty, Dr. Feitosa’s areas of interest include political polarization, democratic support, and political institutions. Dr. Feitosa is a former Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science from McGill University and a former Visiting Scholar at the Center for Political Science Research from KU Leuven.