Juan A. Bogliaccini is Professor in the Social Sciences Department at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). His research focuses on the political economy of inequality, comparative capitalism, skills formation, and crime. He obtained his PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. He is co-director of the Lab on Public Opinion and Social Media (LOPReS). He was the founding chair of the Department of Social Science at UCU (2013) and the Hodos Methods Center at UCU (2022). His work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Competition & Change, and other comparative politics and area studies venues. He is the author of Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies‚ (2024, Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of Skills, Values and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America (2025, Oxford University Press).
Juan A. Bogliaccini is Professor in the Social Sciences Department at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). His research focuses on the political economy of inequality, comparative capitalism, skills formation, and crime. He obtained his PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. He is co-director of the Lab on Public Opinion and Social Media (LOPReS). He was the founding chair of the Department of Social Science at UCU (2013) and the Hodos Methods Center at UCU (2022). His work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Competition & Change, and other comparative…