Research

Curriculum Vitae

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Refereed Journal Articles

Empowering Inclusion? The Two Sides of Party-Society Linkages in Latin America. (with Santiago Anria). Studies in Comparative International Development (2022) 1-22.
Decisiones educativas y prácticas de reproducción de clase en sectores medios-altos en Montevideo (with Maria Jose Alvarez R., Rosario Queirolo & Cecilia Rossel). Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2022) 89-115.
El Desarrollo Dependiente. 30 años de opinión pública en América Latina (with Miguel García & Rosario Queirolo). Colombia Internacional (2022) 3-19
The Illusion of a Middle-Class Region: the case of Uruguay (with Maria Jose Alvarez R., Rosario Queirolo & Cecilia Rossel). Revista de Ciencias Sociales 2022, (79)41-52.
Tackling Drug-Lords in a Nascent Market: Raids and Drug Crime in Uruguay (with Ignacio Borba, Cecilia Giambruno, Diego Pereira and Juan Ignacio Pereira). Criminal Justice Policy Review. 2022 (33) 351-372.
The Technocratic Barrier to Wage Policy: Theoretical Insights from the Chilean Concertación. Third World Quarterly, Published Online on October 6th 2020.
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Varieties of Skills Profiles in Latin America: a reassessment of the hierarchical model of capitalism. (with Aldo Madariaga), Journal of Latin American Studies, 52 (3), pp.601-639. 2020.
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The Reconstruction of Business Interests after the ISI-collapse: unpacking the effect of institutional change in Chile and Uruguay. Third World Quarterly, 40(7), p.1378-1393. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1561181
Foreign Direct Investment and Inequality in Developing Countries: Does sector matter? (with Patrick Egan). Economics & Politics, 29 (3). 208-236. 2017.
Uruguay 2016: mayorías parlamentarias en jaque y desafíos de revisión para sostener el modelo (with Rosario Queirolo). Revista de Ciencia Política (36), Vol. 2. 589-611. 2017.
Regulations of the educational system in Uruguay and its effects on achievements inequality, (with Federico Rodríguez), CEPAL REVIEW (116), 87-101. 2015.
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Trade liberalization, deindustrialization and inequality. Evidence from LatinAmerican middle-income countries, Latin American Research Review 48 (2). 2013.
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Capitalism in the Southern Cone of Latin America after the Washington Consensus. Notes without score?, (with Fernando Filgueira), 2011, Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia, 51, pp.24--56.

Book

Twittarquia. La politica de las redes en Uruguay. Tunel - Universidad Católica del Uruguay. 2019.

Refereed Book Chapters

(forthcoming 2020) "Vocational Training Education as Social Investment in Latin America" (with Aldo Madariaga), in Pallier, Griezmann and Haussermann (ed) The World Politics of Social Investment. Oxford University Press.
"Big Business and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Uruguay: a network-based story of policy infiltration for self-preservation" (with Juan Geymonat y Martín Opertti), in Berghoff, Basualdo and Bucheli (ed.) Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America. Palgrave McMillan. 2020.
Preferences for Redistribution and Tax Burdens (with Juan Pablo Luna), in Flores-Macias, G. (Ed.) “The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America”. Cambridge University Press. 2019.
"Latin America", (with Evelyne Huber), in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States. 2010
"Primary education; Changing Mainstay of Uruguay", in Noblit y Pink (eds.) International Handbook of Urban Education. Sprinter. 2007

Twittarquia. La politica de las redes en Uruguay
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This book, in collaboration with Martin Opertti, Cecilia Giambruno, Nacho Borba and Rafael Piñeiro shows how the electoral contest translates into Twitter. We analyze sentiments, tendencies, networks and possible effects of social media in vote attitudes. We use R for web- scrapping and a varied analysis.

Other publications

(forthcoming 2022) "Formación de Habilidades para el Trabajo en el Giro a la Izquierda" (with Aldo Madariaga), in Lanzaro, J. (ed.) El Giro a la Izquierda en América Latina. Políticas Públicas en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Ecuador y Uruguay a principios del Siglo XXI. Ediciones Planeta.
"Educación para el trabajo y formación de competencias: ¿potenciando la equidad social y el desarrollo? (with Aldo Madariaga), in P. Rivera-Vargas, J. Muñoz-Saavedra, R. Morales Olivares y S. Butendieck-Hijerra (Ed.). Políticas Públicas para la Equidad Social. (pp. 287-298). Santiago de Chile: Colección Políticas Públicas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 2018.
La educación en Uruguay mirada desde los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. INEED/UNICEF. 2018.
"Claves y códigos del capitalismo en Uruguay", (with Fernando Filgueira), in G. Caetano and R. Arocena (eds). La aventura uruguaya. Debate. 2011
"Los límites de la promesa educativa en América Latina: una constatación global y cinco hipótesis antipáticas", (with F.Filgueira, S.Lijtenstein and F.Rodriguez), in Globalización, educación y pobreza en América Latina. ¿Hacia una nueva agenda política? CIDOB Foundation, Barcelona. 2006
"Tendencias de aprendizaje y paradojas descentralizadoras en los sistemas educativos de América Latina", (with F.Filgueira and M.Fritsche) in Descentralización educativa en América Latina. Konrad Adenahuer Foundation. 2006
"Centralismo y descentralización como ejercicio iterativo", (with F.Filgueira and C.Molina) in Descentralización educativa en América Latina. Konrad Adenahuer Foundation. 2006
"Las reformas educacionales en Chile y Uruguay: descentralización orientada al mercado versus centralismo estatista", (with Fernando Filgueira), in Goma and Jordana (eds.) Decentralization and Social Policies. CIDOB Foundation. 2006
Las claves territoriales de la fractura social urbana: Inseguridad y segregación en Montevideo, 2005, Revista PRISMA 21.