JUAN PABLO LUNA is PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and full professor at the School of Government of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He serves as an associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Fundamentals of Data and at the Millennium Institute viodemos. He is currently the lead researcher of the fondecyt Project #1230476. Starting in 2025, he will direct the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies at McGill University, Canada. His most recent research addresses the relationship between inequality, state capacity, organized crime, and democratic citizenship in Latin America, topics on which he has published about fifty articles in international scientific journals. In Chile, he has published Instead of Optimism. Representation Crisis in current Chile (Catalonia, 2017) and The Unconscious Rabble (Catalonia, 2021). He is also the author of Segmented representation. Political representation in unequal societies (Oxford University Press, 2014), based on his doctoral thesis, which won the Juan Linz Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis (2008), awarded by the American Political Science Association. More recently, he has published: Criminal politics and botched development in Latin America, co-authored with Andreas Feldmann (Cambridge University Press 2023), Latin American politics and society. A comparative and historical analysis (co-authored with Gerardo Munck (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Diminished parties (co-edited with Fernando Rosenblatt, Rafael Piñeiro, and Gabriel Vommaro (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
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