Welcome to my site! I’m Santiago, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I’m also part of the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub.
My research focuses on the political economy of environmental governance systems, particularly on how bureaucratic structures, decentralisation processes, and subnational politics shape natural resource management in contexts of fragmentation, politicisation, and inequality. I’m also currently engaged in projects studying decentralisation and intermunicipal collaboration, preferences for climate adaptation policies, and the influence of AI on the public’s support for climate taxes and investment. While my work centres on Latin America, I am broadly interested in Global South countries and South-North comparisons.
Beyond my substantive research, I have a strong interest in political methodology and in developing approaches that combine computational and quantitative methods, especially Social Network Analysis, Text-as-Data, and causal inference. I’m also enthusiastic about bridging quantitative research with the qualitative and historical analysis of regulatory changes.
I received a PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London (KCL), and previously held positions as a Guest Teacher in the LSE School of Public Policy, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Economy at KCL, and an HP Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana. I was also a visiting scholar at the LSE Cañada-Blanch Centre and the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at the University of California, Davis.
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