Costa, M. A., & Forlini, L. (2026). How Do Middle-Income States Select Vaccine Partners? Projected Capacity Across Sectors in Argentina. Accepted for publication in Journal of Public Policy on August 31, 2026.

Costa, M. A. Preventive or Frontloaded? Gendered Leadership in Health and Climate Crises. In O. G. El-Taliawi, E. St. Denny, & H. Sullivan (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan (Forthcoming).

Costa, M. A., Bortz, G., & Seijo, G. (2026). Reconfiguring policy advisory systems under crisis: the role of bureaucratic discretion and reputation in Argentina and Brazil. Policy Design and Practice, 1–12.

Costa, M. A., & Montpetit, É. (2025). Health Policy Capacity and Reliance on Expert Advice in Comparative Perspective: COVID-19 Responses Across Brazilian States. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 1–19.

Lemor, A., Costa, M. A., Beaulieu-Guay, L.-R., & Montpetit, É. (2025). Why did the influence of experts erode during the COVID-19 pandemic?. Policy & Politics, 53(2), 383-402.

Costa, M. A., & Montpetit, É. (2024). State Capacity and Wicked Problems: Examining the Agri-Environmental Topic Through Media Framing and the Legislative Agenda in Brazil. In Policy Capacity, Design and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 89-117). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Beaulieu-Guay, L. R., Costa, M. A., & Montpetit, É. (2023). Policy change and information search: A test of the politics of information using regulatory data. Policy Sciences, 56(2), 377-418.

Pipelines 

Costa, M.A.; Massard da Fonseca, E.; Bortz, G.; Seijo, G. When Is Evidence “Good Enough”? Organizational Conditions of Evidentiary Sufficiency in Brazil and Argentina during COVID-19 (Prepared for an accepted Special Issue proposal at Evidence & Policy). 

Costa, M. A. When Does Public Dissatisfaction Lead to Government Responsiveness? Health Policy Capacity during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil (Prepared for an accepted Special Issue proposal at Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy). 

Costa, M. A. Talking to Whom, How, and When? Health Regulatory Communication under Political Pressure in Latin America. 

Corrêa, J., & Costa, M.A. Why Does One Health Break Down in Practice? Advocacy Coalitions and the Limits of AMR Governance in Brazil. 

Database 

Costa, M. A. (2025). Database on Public Opinion, Legislation, and COVID-19 Measures in Brazil. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14687194