Juan A.
Bogliaccini

I am Professor of Political Science at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). I am also co-Director of the Lab on Public Opinion and Social Media (LOPReS) .

I obtained my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012). My research focuses on the political economy of redistribution and inequality. I am interested in the study of comparative capitalisms, education & skills formation, crime and welfare, and the dynamics of distribution.

I teach courses on political economy, econometrics and research design. I am author of Twittarquía: la política de las redes en Uruguay (2019, Universidad Católica Press/Taurus), Empowering Labor? Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies (2024, ), and Skills, Values and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America (2025, Oxford University Press).

I am member of the Researchers National System (SNI) in Uruguay, member of EGAP , served as Chair of REPAL's (Red Latinoamericana de Economía Política) Steering Committee (2023–25), Dean of the Graduate School (2023–2026), Founding Director of the Hodos Center for Methods and Data Analysis (2022–2023) and Founding Chair of the Social Sciences Department at UCU (2012–2016). I served as Editor for the Latin American Political Economy Series , Palgrave MacMillan (2019–2023).

I have been a research fellow at the Universidade de Lisboa, Universidad Mayor de Chile and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During 2026–2027 I will be a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at Konstaz University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy & Research (CIPR) at Tulane University.