About

I am a political scientist and an Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. My work broadly speaking focuses on explanatory factors of welfare state development and social policy expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean. My research interests include welfare regimes and social risks in marginalised communities, targeting versus universalism in social protection, and basic universal social pensions in low- and middle-income countries. I am the author of several peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Social Indicators Research, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Poverty & Public Policy, Ageing International, Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, Política y Sociedad, and Relaciones Internacionales. My first book, published in open access, is titled ‘Produciendo Bienestar: Una mirada desde las comunidades marginadas en Puerto Rico’ (Dykinson, 2017). My most recent edited book, 'Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America,' was published in Routledge in 2019. Before joining Complutense, I was affiliated with the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC (Spain), University of Agder (Norway) and the Institute of the Americas, University College London (United Kingdom). I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense (Spain). I have been a visiting researcher or fellow at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Lund University (Sweden), Centre for Social Research (Puerto Rico), the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty at the University of Bergen (Norway), and the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London (United Kingdom). I am also a member of the Editorial Board of Alternautas – an open-access blog and Journal on Latin American critical development studies.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Development, Globalisation, Government, Institutions, Latin America, Policy Analysis, Political Economy, Public Policy, Social Capital, Social Justice, Social Policy, Social Welfare, Developing World Politics, Welfare State, Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Global, International, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Quantitative, Regression, Comparative Perspective, Higher Education, Liberalism, Policy Change, Survey Research

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Latin American Politics
• Political Economy and Welfare State Politics
• Teaching and Learning Politics